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FASCICULI MALATENSES 
159. Helopeltis bradyi 
Helopeltis bradyi, Waterh. Trans, Ent, Soc,y 1886, p. 458, pi. xi, figs, i, 2. 
Bukit Besar, Nawngchik. 2,500 feet. May, 1901. 
‘ Flying in clearing in the middle of the day, and on flowers. Perhaps 
bearing a generalized resemblance to an ant.’ 
160. Helopeltis cuneata, sp. nov. 
(PI. XVI) 
Luteous ; scutellar spine and a spot at its base, fuscous brown ; cuneus 
and apical third of abdomen black ; antennae with the first and second joints 
luteous, remainder fuscous ; legs luteous ; the femora, more distinctly pos- 
terior femora, with fuscous mottlings ; membrane pearly-grey, the venation 
fuscous ; scutellar spine almost perpendicular. 
Length, 6 mm. 
Bukit Besar, Nawngchik. 2,500 feet. May, 1901. 
‘From sweep-net in undergrowth.’ 
By the entomologist, who is not especially searching for the insects of 
this family, they are obtained quite accidentally either in the sweep net 
among low jungle vegetation or flying in the sun around flowers. 
BELOSTOMATIDAE 
151. Sphaerodema rusticum 
Nepa rustica, Fal?r. SysL Rhyng.^ p. 106 (1803). 
Diplorhynchus rusticus, Amy, and Serv. His(. Hem., p. 436 (1843). 
Sphaerodema rusticum, Montand. 
Stoll., pi. vii, fig. 6. 
Tanjong Patani, Jhering. 28th September, 1901. 
‘ In small pools of fresh water in sand ; very common.’ 
A wide ranging species throughout the Oriental and Australasian 
regions. 
162. Amorg^us indicus 
Belostoma indica, St. Farg. and Serv. Encycl. Meth. x, p. 272 (1825). 
Amorgus indicus, Montand. 
Ban Sai Kau, Nawngchik. April and September, 1901. 
‘ Large numbers of this big aquatic bug were brought to us by the 
natives at Ban Sai Kau, together with its eggs, which are laid in longitudinal 
