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of hosts and is often found on domestic animals. J. Schwetz (1927, Rev. Zool. 
Afric., XV, 1, p. 89) lists it from several localities in the Belgian Congo. 
In South Africa, this is one of the ticks conveying East Coast fever, a dis- 
ease of cattle caused by the blood parasite Theileria parva (Theiler) (see under 
R. appendiculatus). 
Rhipicephalus sulcatus Neumann 
Rhipicephalus sulcatus Neumann, 1908, Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, p. 352, figs. 1-2 (79; 
“Congo”; probably French Congo). 
BELGIAN Coneo. — Mai Ivwi, in the Ruchuru Plains, off buffalo, Syncerus 
caffer (Sparrman), March 3, 1927 (H. Coolidge). Kindu, off forest buffalo. 
Kkasongo, without host. 
These specimens all agree quite well with Neumann’s description and figures: 
yet I have my doubts as to whether R. sulcatus and R. capensis are specifically 
distinct. J. Schwetz (1927, Rev. Zool. Afric., XV, I, p. 84) has recorded R. 
sulcatus from Tshisika and a female of that lot, which I have seen, seems to be- 
long to this species. R. sulcatus is known only from the Congo. 
Rhipicephalus deltoideus Neumann 
Rhipicephalus deltoideus Neumann, 1910, Tijdschr. v. Entom., LIII, p. 13, Pl. 1, figs. 3-7 (7 @; 
Basutoland). 
BELGIAN Conao. — Ishasa River, several males and females, off a wild 
‘rabbit, Lepus sp., April 18, 1927 (G. C. Shattuck). 
The host of this little-known species does not appear to have been recorded 
thus far. 
Rhipicephalus capensis compositus Neumann 
Rhipicephalus compositus Neumann, 1897, Mém. Soc. Zool. France, X, p. 893 (o; Khartoum and 
Tanganyika Territory). 
Rhipicephalus capensis compositus Neumann, 1905, Arch. de Parasitologie, IX, p. 231 (@ ¢); 
1911, ‘Das Tierreich, Lief. 26, Acarina, Ixodidae,’ p. 39 (@ @). 
Breuaian Coneo.— Ruchuru Plains, off warthog, Phacochoerus africanus 
(Gmelin), April 5, 1927 (R. P. Strong). 
I am inclined to suspect that this form of R. capensis was described anew 
by Warburton, as R. neaver var. punctatus (1912, Parasitology, V, p. 10, figs. 4-5). 
Rhipicephalus cuneatus Neumann 
Rhipicephalus cuneatus Neumann, 1908, Notes Leyden Mus., XXX, p. 76, figs. 2-3 (7; off cattle, 
Ngomo on the Ogowe River, Gaboon). 
LrBERIA.— Sessu Town, one male, off a monkey, October 5, 1926 (L. Whit- 
man). 
This specimen agrees in every detail with the original description and fig- 
ures. J have my doubts, however, as to the specific distinctness of R. cuneatus 
and R. ziemanni Neumann (1904, Arch. de Parasitologie, VIII, p. 464; « ¢; off 
cattle, Cameroon). The latter has also been recorded from Liberia by Neu- 
mann; but since it has not been figured, I hesitate to unite the two species. 
