FASCICULI MALATENSES 
271 
clusters around the stems of reeds and stiff grasses at the edges of the rice 
fields. The insects and eggs are used as an article of diet by both Malays and 
Siamese.* 
Very widely distributed throughout the Oriental region. 
NEPIDAE 
163. Laccotrephes ruber 
Nepa rubra (rubra), Linn, Mus, Lud, Ulr,^ p. 165 (1764) ; Fabr, Mant, Ins. i, 
p. 277 (1787) ; Ent, Syst. iv, p. 62 (1794) ; Syst. Rhyng,^ p. 107 
(1803). 
Nepa grossa, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iv, p. 62 (1794). 
Laccotrephes ruber, Stdl. Hem. Fahr. i, p. 135 (1868). 
Ban Sai Kau, Nawngchik. September, 1901. 
