Henley Grose-Smith
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Henley Grose-Smith was an English entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera
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Grose-Smith described many new taxa of butterflies from his own collections and those of Walter Rothschild. His collections were sold to James John Joicey
in 1910. Most of his type specimens are in the Natural History Museum London
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...
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Grose-Smith described many new taxa of butterflies from his own collections and those of Walter Rothschild. His collections were sold to James John Joicey
James John Joicey
James John Joicey was an amateur entomologist who assembled a massive collection of Lepidoptera in a private museum called the Hill Museum....
in 1910. Most of his type specimens are in the Natural History Museum London
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...
Publications
Partial list- 1887 Description of six new species of Butterflies captured by Mr. John Whitehead at Kina Balu Mountain, North Borneo, in the collection of Mr. H. Grose Smith Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (5) 20: 432-435
- 1889 Descriptions of new species of butterflies captured by Mr. C.M. Woodford in the Solomon Islands Ent. Mon. Mag. 25: 299-303
- 1894 Descriptions of eight new species of butterflies from New Britain and Duke of York Islands in the collections of the Hon. W. Rothschild and Mr. Grose Smith, captured by Captains Cayley Webster and Cotton Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) 13 (78): 496-502
- 1894 An Account of a Collection of Diurnal Lepidoptera from New Guinea (Parts I-III) - made by Mr. W. Doherty at Humboldt Bay, Dutch New Guinea, and in neighbouring islands, in the Museum of the honourable Walter Rothschild at Tring, with descriptions of new species Novit. zool. 1 (2): 331-365 543-551 (3): 571-584
- 1894 Descriptions of nine new species of butterflies, from the Sattelberg, near Finsch Hafen, German New Guinea, in the collections of the Honourable Walter Rothschild and H. Grose Smith, captured by Captains Cayley Webster and Cotton Novit. Zool. 1 (3): 585-590
- 1897 Descriptions of further new Species of Butterflies from the Pacific Island Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) 20: 515-518
- 1898 Description of two new species of butterflies of the genus Thysonotis Hübner, [1819] Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) 2 (11): 404-405