identified as a new species in 2013, by André Schuiteman, senior researcher in orchids at Kew. No other collected specimens are known to have been found, and it is unknown whether the species still exists. Bibliography Cheesman was the author of many books and scientific articles on entomology and her travels. These include: The Ants of Timothy Thümmel, 1924 (co-author) Everyday Doings of Insects, 1924 The Great Little Insect, 1924 Chapters from everyday doings of insects, 1927 Islands near the sun; off the beaten track in the far, fair Society Islands, 1927 The Cyclops Mountains of Dutch New Guinea, 192? A First Book of Nature Study, 1931 The growth of living things; a book of nautre study, 1932 Hunting insects in the South seas, 1932 Backwaters of the savage South seas, 1933 Insect behaviour, 1933 The warp and weft of life, 1934 The two roads of Papua, 1935 Marooned in Du-Bu cove, 193? The land of the red bird, 1938 "The mountainous country at the boundary, north New Guinea : Japanese operations in New Guinea", Geographical journal, v. 98, no. 4, Oct. 1941 and v. 101, no. 3, Mar. 1943 Camping Adventures in New Guinea, 1948 Camping adventures on cannibal islands, 1949 Six-legged snakes in New Guinea; a collecting expedition to two unexplored islands, 1949 Naturalists' expeditions in the pacific, 1950 Landfall the unknown : Lord Howe Island 1788, 1950 Insects: their secret world, 1952 Insects indomitable, 1952 Charles Darwin and his problems, 1955 Sealskins for silk: Captain Fanning's voyage around the world in a brig in 1797–99, 1956 Things worth while, 1957 Time well spent, 1960 Microlepidoptera from the New Hebrides. Records and descriptions of microlepidoptera collected on the island of Aneityum by Miss Evelyn Cheesman by John David BRADLEY; Evelyn Cheesman, 1962 Miss L. E. Cheesman's Expeditions to New Guinea by Douglas Eric KIMMINS; Evelyn Cheesman, 1962 Who stand alone, 1965 References External links BBC4 Natural History Heroes Audio Documentary on Evelyn Cheesman http://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/lucy-evelyn-cheesman.html 1881 births 1969 deaths English governesses English entomologists Employees of the Natural History Museum, London Officers of the Order of the British Empire Women entomologists Female explorers English explorers of the Pacific 20th-century explorers 20th-century British zoologists People from Broadstairs 20th-century British women scientists