H. Scott 
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The head resembles in form that of Cyclopodia (Paracyclopodia) 
roylei and of many species of Nycteribia, etc. The legs are long" and very 
slender, the tibiae not appreciably flattened. The front coxae are no 
more elongated than in many species of Penicillidia, etc. The hollow 
above the d claspers extends as far forward as the apex of the claspers. 
Halteres small and erect, with knobbed apex and slender pedicel. 
T. fryeri was described from Assumption Island (N. of Madagascar) 
and from Labuan. Dr Bequaert has since collected 4 ? in the Belgian 
Congo, at Medje, and has called my attention to the presence of the 
tibial rings, the overlooking of which caused me to place the species in 
a wrong genus. I have examined one of his $ side by side with the 
series from Assumption, and am convinced of their identity, and he 
states that the other 3 examples also agree closely with my description. 
Possibly Cyclopodia amiculata Speiser (Rec. Ind. Mus. i, 1907, p. 296), 
which 1 have not seen, is also a Tripselia. Though Speiser placed it in 
Cyclopodia on account of its 3-ringed tibiae, he wrote to me in 1908 that 
on re-examination it proved to have either no eyes at all, or only a 
single unpigmented lens on either side of the head—probably the 
former. In either case he considered it could not remain in Cyclopodia, 
and proposed the generic name Tripselia, which I now adopt. If 
amiculata has no eyes at all, it is certainly a Tripselia {sensu meo). 
But if it has single unpigmented lenses like those of Penicillidia and 
Eucampsipodia, it may necessitate the erection of yet another genus. 
Furthermore, if amiculata is a Tripselia, it is possible that my T. fryeri 
is identical with it. With his letter Speiser sent rough sketches of the 
abdomen of d amiculata, not unlike the abdomen of fryeri His 
published description of the $ was very short and only intended as 
preliminary, but it mentions characters which make me suspect the 
identity of fryeri with amiculata. 
[Since the above was written I have received through Dr Bequaert 
1 (? and 1 ? from Sumatra, belonging to a form which very closely 
resembles T. fryeri except in the following particulars: size smaller; 
legs noticeably shorter, especially femora, and both femora and tibiae 
stouter; ventral hind margin of thorax in both sexes fringed with long 
bristles (absent in typical fryeri), three on each side of the middle line, 
with shorter ones between them. Detailed consideration of this form, 
stated to be from Pipistrellus sp., must be deferred.] 
Hosts of Tripselia fryeri are: Taphozous tnauritianus (Emballon- 
uridae). Assumption Island; Saccolaimus Taphozous) saccolaimus, 
Labuan; Saccolaimus (= Taphozous) peli, Belgian Congo. 
