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and shorter bristles alternate, and one or two near the outer extremities are very long 

 and directed outwards. Subgenital plate roughly trapezoidal, with hind angles much 

 rounded : divided by a narrow, pale, median area into two yellowish chitinous lateral 

 parts, each of which bears on its posterior half two transverse series of bristles, the 

 anterior consisting of about 5 short bristles, the posterior consisting of about 3 very 

 long outstanding bristles ; the apical part of the margin bears about 9 bristles, of which 

 the two at the rounded hind angles are the longest. 



Loc. Assumption. Labuan. 



Assumption: IX. 1908 (Fryer) ; 33^, 15? (l^, 12$, in spirit: 2$, 3?, preserved dry), 

 collected from Taphozous mauritianus (for circumstances of capture see above in the 

 general remarks on Nycteribiidse). 



Labuan : 1$ in British Museum, labelled " 78.6. From Taphozous saccolaimus." 



