J. Malcolm Fawcett
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J. Malcolm Fawcett was an English
? entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera
.
His collection of African moths was acquired by Walter Rothschild for his museum at Tring
and are now in the Natural History Museum
in London. His butterflies were sold by auction.
Fawcett's Clouded Yellow
is named for him.
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
? entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera
Lepidoptera
Lepidoptera is a large order of insects that includes moths and butterflies . It is one of the most widespread and widely recognizable insect orders in the world, encompassing moths and the three superfamilies of butterflies, skipper butterflies, and moth-butterflies...
.
His collection of African moths was acquired by Walter Rothschild for his museum at Tring
Tring
Tring is a small market town and also a civil parish in the Chiltern Hills in Hertfordshire, England. Situated north-west of London and linked to London by the old Roman road of Akeman Street, by the modern A41, by the Grand Union Canal and by rail lines to Euston Station, Tring is now largely a...
and are now in the Natural History Museum
Natural History Museum
The Natural History Museum is one of three large museums on Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London, England . Its main frontage is on Cromwell Road...
in London. His butterflies were sold by auction.
Fawcett's Clouded Yellow
Colias nina
Fawcett's Clouded Yellow, Colias nina is a small butterfly of the Family Pieridae, that is, the Yellows and Whites, which is found in India.-References:* Evans, W.H. The Identification of Indian Butterflies...
is named for him.
Works
- "Notes on the transformations of some South-African Lepidoptera," Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, vol. 17, part 2 (1903)
- [Minutes of meeting 7 June 1904], Abstr. Proc. zool Soc. Lond. 1904 (9): 8-9 (1904), in which some ColiasColiasColias is a genus of butterflies in the family Pieridae. They are usually called clouded yellows; the North American name "sulphurs" is elsewhere used for Coliadinae in general. The closest living relative is the genus Zerene, which is sometimes included in Colias.This genus occurs throughout the...
species are newly described - "Notes on a collection of Heterocera made by Mr. W. Feather in British East Africa, 1911-13," Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond 1917: 233-250 (1918)