FASCICULI MALATENSES 
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Serinetharia 
76. Serinetha abdominalis 
Lygaeus abdominalis, Fabr. Syst. Rhyng.^ p. 226 (1803). 
Leptocoris abdominalis, Burm, Handh. ii, p. 305 (1835). 
Lygaeomorphus abdominalis, Blanch. Hist, des Ins. iii, p. 116 (1840). 
Pyrrhotes abdominalis, IVestw. in Hope Cat. ii, p. 26 (1842). 
Serinetha abdominalis, Stdl. Hem. Fahr. i, p. 68 (1868); Dist. Faun. Brit. 
Ind. Rhynch. i, p. 419, fig. 246 (1902). 
Lygaeus augur (part), Fahr. Ent. Syst. iv, p. 161 (1794). 
Leptocoris rufus, Hahn. JVanz. Ins. i, p. 201, fig. 102 (1831). 
Serinetha taprobanensis, Dali. List. Hem. ii, p. 461 (1852). 
Leptocoris bahram, Kirk, Bull. Liverp. Muss, ii, p. 46 (1899). 
‘ Our collections afford numerous instances of the convergent groups 
noted in Sarawak by Mr. Shelford.' The present species belongs to that 
author’s group I (Lycoid pattern). Our own examples include, besides the 
longicorn Eurycephalus lundi, several Malacoderms and a Hispid, not yet 
identified, and Hemiptera of three families, nyl., Serinetha abdominalis (Coreidae), 
Atitilochus coqueberti and Dindymus rubiginosus (Pyrrhocoridae), Vilius macrops 
(Reduviidae). The large Malacoderms of this group were extremely common 
at Telom, where both S. abdominalis and Ectatops rubiaceous were taken.’ 
Telom, Pcrak-Pahang boundary. 4,000 feet. January, 1902. 
LYGAEIDAE 
LYGAEINAE 
77. Tropidothorax fimbriatus 
Lygaeus fimbriatus, Dali. List. Hem. ii, p. 546 (1852). 
Melanospilus fimbriatus, Stdl. En. Hem. iv, p. 104 (1874). 
Patani. 
Recorded from Ceylon, Java, and the Philippine Islands. 
78. Graptostethus diffusus 
Lygaeus diffusus. Walk. Cat. Het. v, p. 59 (1872). 
Graptostethus diffusus, Dist. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) vii, p. 537 (1901). 
Biserat, Jalor. 30th June, 1901. 
‘ Feeding on the seed-vessels of a tall, yellow flowered leguminous plant 
growing on open waste ground.’ 
. P.Z.S., 1902, pp. 267-272. 
