Percy Ireland Lathy (1874 – 8 September 1943) was an English

entomologist Entomology () is the scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology. In the past the term "insect" was less specific, and historically the definition of entomology would also include the study of animals in other arthropod groups, such as arach ...

who specialised in

butterflies Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the Order (biology), order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The ...

. He was an acquaintance of

James John Joicey James John Joicey FES (28 December 1870 – 10 March 1932) was an English amateur entomologist, who assembled an extensive collection of Lepidoptera in his private research museum, called the Hill Museum, in Witley, Surrey. His ...

and was associated with Joicey's Hill Museum in

Witley Witley is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Waverley in Surrey, England centred south west of the town of Godalming and southwest of Guildford. The land is a mixture of rural (ranging from woodland protected by the Surrey Hills AO ...

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Life and career

Percy Ireland Lathy was born in

Pulborough Pulborough is a large village and civil parish in the Horsham district of West Sussex, England, with some 5,000 inhabitants. It is located almost centrally within West Sussex and is south west of London. It is at the junction of the north–south ...

West Sussex West Sussex is a county in South East England on the English Channel coast. The ceremonial county comprises the shire districts of Adur, Arun, Chichester, Horsham, and Mid Sussex, and the boroughs of Crawley and Worthing. Covering an ar ...

, in 1874. He lived for some time at Tillington. Lathy was first assistant to William Watkins, in

Eastbourne Eastbourne () is a town and seaside resort in East Sussex, on the south coast of England, east of Brighton and south of London. Eastbourne is immediately east of Beachy Head, the highest chalk sea cliff in Great Britain and part of the la ...

then

curator A curator (from la, cura, meaning "to take care") is a manager or overseer. When working with cultural organizations, a curator is typically a "collections curator" or an "exhibitions curator", and has multifaceted tasks dependent on the parti ...

for Herbert Jordan Adams in

Enfield Enfield may refer to: Places Australia * Enfield, New South Wales * Enfield, South Australia ** Electoral district of Enfield, a state electoral district in South Australia, corresponding to the suburb ** Enfield High School (South Australia) ...

(this collection is now in the

Natural History Museum, London The Natural History Museum in London is a museum that exhibits a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural history. It is one of three major museums on Exhibition Road in South Kensington, the others being the Science Museum an ...

). At this time, on Adams' behalf, he collected in the

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(especially

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) and

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and employed collectors who were sent to

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and

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. He also acquired the Honrath and van de Poll collections for Adams. After Adams' death in 1912, he worked for Cabinet Le Moult in Paris then for

Aimée Fournier de Horrack Aimée Fournier de Horrack (30 August 1876 – 25 February 1952) was a French entomologist. She is also known as Mlle de Horrack and Mme Gaston Fournier. Aimée Fournier was a butterfly collector. She lived in Paris at 90, Boulevard Malesherbe ...

. Aimée Fournier de Horrack was a leading figure in literary and musical circles and had a private butterfly collection containing very rare and expensive species of ''

Morpho The morpho butterflies comprise many species of Neotropical butterfly under the genus ''Morpho''. This genus includes more than 29 accepted species and 147 accepted subspecies, found mostly in South America, Mexico, and Central America. ''Morph ...

'', ''

Agrias ''Agrias'' is a genus of Neotropical charaxine nymphalid butterflies found in South and Central America. The German lepidopterist Hans Fruhstorfer wrote: "In this magnificent tropical genus, upon which nature seems to have showered all her abu ...

'', ''

Catagramma ''"Catagramma"'' is an obsolete genus of Neotropical butterflies; the name continues to be used e.g. among butterfly collectors as a form taxon. ''"Catagramma"'' species are popularly known as 88s, in reference to a pattern on the hindwing und ...

'', ''

Prepona ''Prepona'' is a genus of Neotropical charaxine butterflies in the family Nymphalidae. They are strong fliers in tropical forests where they feed on fermenting fruits and animal dung. The underside of the wings is pale greyish or brownish, while ...

'',

Papilionidae Swallowtail butterflies are large, colorful butterflies in the family Papilionidae, and include over 550 species. Though the majority are tropical, members of the family inhabit every continent except Antarctica. The family includes the larges ...

, ''

Ornithoptera ''Ornithoptera'' is a genus of birdwing butterflies found in the northern portion of the Australasian realm, east of Weber's line; the Moluccas, New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and northeastern Australia. Except for ''Ornithoptera richmondia'' ...

'', ''

Charaxes The rajah and pasha butterflies, also known as emperors in Africa and Australia, (genus ''Charaxes'') make up the huge type genus of the brush-footed butterfly subfamily Charaxinae, or leafwing butterflies. They belong to the tribe Charaxini, w ...

'',

Riodininae __NOTOC__ Riodininae is the largest of the three subfamilies within the metalmark butterfly family, Riodinidae. Classification Riodininae contains the following tribes: * Befrostiini Grishin, 2019 * Calydnini Seraphim, Freitas & Kaminski, 201 ...

and

Lycaenidae Lycaenidae is the second-largest family of butterflies (behind Nymphalidae, brush-footed butterflies), with over 6,000 species worldwide, whose members are also called gossamer-winged butterflies. They constitute about 30% of the known butterfl ...

. The Aimée Fournier collection is now in

Muséum national d'histoire naturelle The French National Museum of Natural History, known in French as the ' (abbreviation MNHN), is the national natural history museum of France and a ' of higher education part of Sorbonne Universities. The main museum, with four galleries, is loc ...

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Société Entomologique de France The Société entomologique de France, or French Entomological Society, is devoted to the study of insects. The society was founded in 1832 in Paris, France. The society was created by eighteen Parisian entomologists on January 31, 1832. The first ...

(presented by

Eugène Le Moult Eugène Le Moult (31 December 1882, Quimper – 26 January 1967, Paris) was a French naturalist and entomologist specialised in butterflies; hunter, businessman and collector. Le Moult grew up in the tropical prison colony of French Guiana, whe ...

), the

Entomological Society of London The Royal Entomological Society is devoted to the study of insects. Its aims are to disseminate information about insects and improving communication between entomologists. The society was founded in 1833 as the Entomological Society of London ...

, the

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and the

Entomological Society of America The Entomological Society of America (ESA) was founded in 1889 and today has more than 7,000 members, including educators, extension personnel, consultants, students, researchers, and scientists from agricultural departments, health agencies, ...

. After retirement Lathy lived at

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in Seine-et-Oise. He died in a German

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Vittel Vittel (; archaic ) is a commune in the Vosges department in Grand Est in northeastern France. Mineral water is bottled and sold here by Nestlé Waters France, under the ''Vittel'' brand. History In 1854, after visiting the baths at nearby Contr ...

, France, in 1943.

Works

Partial list *1898 "A new species of ''Charaxes'' from Siam", ''Entomologist'' 31 : 192-193 *1898 "A new species of ''Charaxes''", ''Entomologist'' 31 : 226-227 *1901 "An account of a collection of Rhopalocera made at Zomba in British Central Africa", ''Transactions of the

'' 1901:19-36 *1903 "An account of a collection of Rhopalocera made on the Anambara Creek in Nigeria, West Africa", ''Transactions of the Entomological Society of London'' 1903:183-206. *190
"A Contribution Towards the Knowledge of the Lepidoptera-Rhopalocera of Dominica, B.W.I.
''Proceedings of the

'' 1 (30): 450–453 *1906 A Contribution towards the knowledge of African Rhopalocera ''Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond.'' 1906 (1) : 1–10, pl. 1-

*190
"Notes on the Indo-Australian Papilionidae"
''Trans. ent. Soc. Lond.'' 55(1) : 1-6 1 plate *1912 Lathy & William Frederick Henry Rosenberg, Rosenberg, 1912 "Notes on the genus ''

Catasticta ''Catasticta'' is a genus of Neotropical realm, Neotropical butterflies in the family (biology), family Pieridae. The genus was erected by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1870. Species *Subgenus ''Catasticta'' Butler, 1870 **The ''flisa'' species grou ...

'', with descriptions of new species", ''Trans. ent. Soc. Lond.'' 1911 (3) : 519–527, pl. 45-46 *1913 "New butterflies from Nias", ''Entomologist'', 46 : 98–101, 135-138 *1921 with Aimée Fournier de Horrack, "Thèses entomologiques (Lepidoptéres) : notes et remarques sur les ''Agrias'' : aquarelles de Mlles de La Roche et Trottet, MM. d'Apreval, Houlbert et Rouy d'apres les originaux de Mlle du Puigaudeau "(Odix). fascicule 1 Paris : . de Malherbe *1922 "An account of the Castniinae in the collection of Madame Gaston Fournier (Lepidoptera)", ''

Annals and Magazine of Natural History The ''Journal of Natural History'' is a scientific journal published by Taylor & Francis focusing on entomology and zoology. The journal was established in 1841 under the name ''Annals and Magazine of Natural History'' (''Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist.'') a ...

'' (9)9(49):68-86 *1926 "Notes sur les ''Charaxes'' de la collection de Madame G. Fournier", ''Encycl. Ent.'' (B3) 1 : 93–97, pl. 2-3 *1926 "Notes on the American Theclinae (Lepidoptera)", ''Annals and Magazine of Natural History'', 17, 35–47 *1930 "Notes on South American Lycaenidae, with description of new species", ''Trans. ent. Soc. Lond.'' 78 : 133-137 *1932 "The genus ''Lamprospilus'' (Lepidoptera)", ''Annals and Magazine of Natural History'', 9: 180–182

References

*Talbot, G. 1943: "Lathy, P. I.", ''Entomologist'' 76 : 263-264

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