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Snout triangular, rather long and pointed, its breadth at the angle of the mouth is 
very slightly in excess of the distance between the posterior border of the frontal pit 
and the tip of the snout. Lower lip devoid of a groove, or if indicated, only very 
feebly so. Ear more or less triangular, with well-rounded tip, the greatest breadth 
opposite the lower portion of the inner border of the conch, where the breadth equals 
about three-fourths of the height measured from the meatus. The inner border is 
thickened, more or less crenated, and nearly straight; the outer border is very faintly 
concave, broadly rounded in its lower two-thirds, and attached at a distance behind the 
angle of the mouth equal to half of the interval between the outer and inner attach¬ 
ment of the ear. The interval between the tips of the ears, when they are laterally 
spread out, is equal to one-half of the interspace between the snout and the point 
where the tail emerges from the interfemoral membrane. Height of the tragus equal 
to one-third of the height of the ear, its narrowest breadth being about one-half of 
the breadth of its terminal expansion. Lobe at base well defined, triangular. Wings 
arising from the proximal end of the lower third of the tibia. Radio-metacarpal pouch 
small. Feet large. 
Fur confined to the back, not extending to the wing-membrane on the upper 
surface, but spreading on to the wing below between the middle of the luimerus and 
femur. A feebly haired area exists more or less from the elbow to the opening to the 
radio-metacarpal pouch. The under surface of the forearm is thickly covered with hair. 
Sacral region of back, and upper and under surface of interfemoral membrane, naked. 
Lower portion of abdomen, before the genitalia and behind the anus, and along the 
thighs, nude, with the exception of a sparse clothing of short hairs. Muzzle from the 
attachment of the ears forwards practically nude, with the exception of a very sparse 
clothing of minute hairs with some longer ones intermixed; chin similarly clad. Gular 
pouch moderately developed in the male, less so in the female. A second small rounded 
gular pouch a short distance behind the former, opening by an orifice little more than 
1 mm. in diameter, the area around it being almost completely nude. 
Ears nude towards their tips externally ; sparsely clad internally with short 
hairs. 
Basal half of the upper fur white, broadly tipped with greyish brown, so that the 
general colour of the upper surface is greyish brown. Under surface with the fur also 
white in its basal half, succeeded by pale greyish brown, more or less tipped Avith 
whitish, so that the general surface below is speckled greyish and whitish. Wing- 
membrane pale brown colour, greyish brown below ; the border of the wing, between 
the fifth digit and the heel, with an irregular whitish border. 
The upper incisors are lost in adults, and in old males the second upper premolar 
is separated from the canine by a marked interval, through whieh the first upper 
premolar can be seen. 
