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LESTEVA LUCTUOSA, FAUV. 
A SPECIES NEW TO ENGLAND. 
J. W. ‘CARTER, F.E.S. 
AT a meeting of the Entomological Section of the Yorkshire 
Naturalists’ Union, held at Leeds on the 31st October last, I 
exhibited examples of a species of Lesteva which I had tried 
in vain to identify with any of the species described in Vol. 2 
of Fowler’s British Coleoptera. It was obviously in some 
respects closely related to L. pubescens Mannh. Mr. Thompson 
kindly gave me a specimen of L. pubescens, when I saw at once 
that it was very different. I therefore sent a specimen to Mr. 
J. R. le B. Tomlin, M.A., F.E.S., who kindly examined and 
returned it as an undoubted specimen of Lesteva luctuosa 
Fauvel, a species introduced to the British fauna by Mr. 
Donisthorpe in The Entomologist's Record, 1g1I, p. 301, on a 
single specimen taken by himself ‘in the Isle of Eigg, a small 
island near the Isle of Mull, in the inner Hebrides, off the 
west coast of Scotland.’ On reference to Fauvel’s original 
description—translated in the above-named journal by Mr. 
Donisthorpe—there can be no doubt of the accuracy of Mr. 
Tomlin’s determination, and as Mr. Donisthorpe remarks, ‘ the 
contrast between the yellow tarsi and red apex of the tibia, and 
the dark legs is most striking,’ and it is very different in other 
respects from any of our British species. I took my specimens 
in July, 1913, in a mountain stream near Malham, in West 
Yorkshire. They were closely attached to the underside of 
stones—just as one finds Dianous—at the bottom of the stream 
in six or eight inches of water. There are evidently no records 
since Mr. Donisthorpe’s original specimen. Fauvel regards it 
as ‘ very rare, under refuse and stones, half submerged on the 
borders of torrents in the mountains.’ 
OMe 
We see an announcement of a book by Sir E. Ray Lankester, entitled, 
‘Diversions of a Naturalist.’ With this author’s extensive experience, 
the book ought to be particularly interesting. 
The January number of the Transactions of the Institute of Marine 
Engineers contains an interesting paper on ‘ Terrestrial Magnetism,’ by 
Mr. A. N. Somerscales, of Hull. It is well illustrated. 
We have received the Inaugural Address of the President, W. A. Evans, 
to the members of the Letcestey Litevary and Philosophical Society, October 
5th, 1914, on ‘ Wheat, and its Relation to the Present Crisis.’ 
On January 21st, Mr. T. Sheppard delivered a lecture to the Royal 
Geographical Society on the ‘Geography of East Yorkshire, as shown 
by Maps.’ It was illustrated by a large collection of maps and charts 
indicating changes in the area, dating from the time of Henry VIII. At 
the request of the president, Mr. Douglas Freshfield, these were allowed 
to remain on exhibition at the Society’s rooms, Kensington Gore, in order 
to give the Fellows an apportunity of examining them. 
Naturalist. 
