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This was seconded by Mr. DontstHorps, but being accepted 
by the proposer and seconder of the original resolution was 
put as a substantive motion and carried. 
Nature Reserves. 
The Hon. N. CHartes Roruscuixp, being called upon by 
the President, brought before the notice of the Entomological 
Society of London, a recently formed society, the Society for 
the Promotion of Nature Reserves, and briefly outlined its 
objects. 
Mr. Charles Rothschild stated that it was the wish of the 
Society to secure and hand over to the National Trust for 
permanent preservation, certain areas in the British Islands 
which were of general, zoological and botanical interest. 
The speaker pointed out that Fellows of the Society could 
assist the movement by joining the Society (there being no 
entrance fee or subscription), and by making suggestions for 
desirable areas that should be acquired. The Fellows were 
urged to apply to the secretaries, W. R. Ogilvie Grant, and the 
Hon. Francis R. Henley, at the British Museum (Natural 
History), Cromwell Road, 8.W. 
A COLEOPTERON RESEMBLING A DipTrERon.—Mr. J. E. 
Coun, on behalf of Lt.-Col. C. G. Nursr, exhibited three 
specimens of a peculiar insect which Mr. G. C. Champion had 
identified as a species of Myiodites, a heteromerous Coleopteron, 
captured by Col. Nurse, at Quetta (India) in 1902. They were 
taken flying along a mud wall all at the same place though on 
different days. The exhibitor remarked upon their super- 
ficial resemblance to Diptera of the family Cyrtidae which had 
led Col. Nurse to submit them to him for identification, though 
at the time they were caught the manner of flying had sug- 
gested their being Coleoptera. 
A REMARKABLE CoLEOPTERON.—Mr. O. E. Janson exhibited 
specimens of a curious form of staphylinid beetle from South 
Brazil, apparently the Ecitomorpha arachnoides, Wassm. 
(Deutsche Ent. Zeit. 1889, p. 185). He considered it much 
more nearly resembled the larval form of certain hemipterous 
insects than a spider. It was said to be associated with 
the ant Heiton hetschkoi, Mayr. 
