ENTOMOLOGY S11 
Haemaphysalis leachi Neumann, 1897, Mém. Soc. Zool. France, X, p. 347, figs. 13-15 (#7 2); 
1911, ‘Das Tierreich, Lief. 26, Acarina, Ixodidae,’ p. 114, figs. 62 and 63 (# ¢). Nuttall and 
Warburton, 1915, ‘Ticks, Part III, Haemaphysalis,’ p. 460, figs. 398-410, Pls. XII and XIII 
(9). Nuttall, 1916, Bull. Ent. Res., VI, 4, pp. 319 and 348, figs. 9-10 (¢ 9). 
Opisthodon canestrinit Supino, 1897, Atti Soc. Veneto-Trent. Sci. Nat., Padova, (2) III, (1898), 
p.2o2; Pl. AUT, fie.:21 ¢ #): 
Opisthodon gestroi Supino, 1897, loc cit., p. 252, Pl. XIII, fig. 23 ( ¢). 
Opisthodon asiaticus Supino, 1897, loc. cit., p. 252, Pl. XIII, fig. 22 (#). 
Haemaphysalis leachi australis Neumann, 1905, Arch. de Parasitologie, IX, p. 238 (# @; Sumatra 
and New South Wales). 
Haemaphysalis koningsbergeri Warburton and Nuttall, 1909, Parasitology, I, p. 65, figs. 11 and 12 
(o% 2; off Felis pardus, without locality). 
Haemaphysalis leachi var. indica Warburton, 1910, Parasitology, III, p. 402 ( 9; off Canis aureus, 
Calcutta, India). 
Lippria.— Gbanga, several males and females, off the ears, eyelids and 
face of Crossarchus obscurus F. Cuvier, September 16, 1926; and off Crvettictis 
civetta (Schreber), September 5, 1926. Du River (Camp No. 3), one male, off 
domestic cat, Felis domestica, August 1, 1926 (M. Theiler). 
BELGIAN Conao.— Upoto, two males, fixed between the toes of a mon- 
goose, Atilax (? paludinosus robustus), December 30, 1926. Kisenyi, on the 
northern shore of Lake Kivu, one female, off domestic dog, Canis familiaris, 
February 138, 1927. Ruchuru, several males and females, off Galerella brun- 
neo-ochracea Matschie, February 28, 1927. Ruchuru Plains, several males 
and one female, off lion, Felzs leo Linnaeus, April 1927 (R. P. Strong). Lulenga, 
several males and females, off Civettictis civetta (Schreber), March 6, 1927. 
TANGANYIKA TERRITORY.— Kilosa, several males and females off Genetta 
suahelica Matschie, about December 24, 1922; off Felis pardus suahelicus 
Neumann, January 21, 1923; and off Felis capensis hinder Wroughton, March 
22, 1922 (Arthur Loveridge). Mkata River, several males and females, off 
Genetta suahelica Matschie, August 25, 1921 (Arthur Loveridge). Sagayo, 
Mwanza, several males, off Cvvettictis civetta orientalis Matschie, November 
4, 1923 (Arthur Loveridge). 
A common parasite of wild Carnivora and domestic dog and eat, over the 
whole of Africa, southern Asia, the Malay Archipelago and Australia. There 
are many records from the Belgian Congo (J. Schwetz, 1927, Rev. Zool. Afric., 
XV, 1, p. 89). A detailed account of this tick and its biology is found in Nut- 
tall and Warburton’s Monograph (1915). It is of considerable economic im- 
portance as the usual carrier of canine piroplasmosis, a fatal disease of dogs 
caused by Babesia canis (Piana and Galli-Valerio). (See under Rhipicephalus 
sanguineus.) 
Only one species of Haemaphysalis (H. leachii) is known at present in Libe- 
ria. Two species (H. leachit and H. parmata) are found in the Belgian Congo. 
J. Schwetz (1927, Rev. Zool. Afric., XV, 1, p. 89) also lists a “‘H. eurysternus,”’ 
from the Lualaba, after specimens named by Gedoelst, in the collections of the 
Congo Museum. A species of Haemaphysalis bearing that name is not known 
to me, and the record was based upon specimens of the cattle louse, Haematopinus 
eurysternus (Nitzsch). 
