Percy Ireland Lathy
Percy Ireland Lathy (1874 in Pulborough – 8 September 1943 in Vittel) was an English entomologist. He was a friend of James John Joicey and associated with Joicey's Hill Museum. He lived sometime at Tillington.
Lathy was first Assistant to William Watkins, in Eastbourne then Curator for Herbert Jordan Adams in Enfield (this collection is now in the Natural History Museum, London). At this time on Adams behalf he collected in the West Indies (especially Jamaica and South America and employed collectors who were sent to Peru and Dutch New Guinea. He also acquired the Honrath and van de Poll collections for Adams. After Adams death in 1921 he worked for Cabinet Le Moult in Paris then for Aimée Fournier de Horrack. 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, Agrias,Catagramma, Prepona, Papilionidae, Ornithoptera, Charaxes, Riodininae and Lycaenidae. The Aimée Fournier collection is now in Muséum national d'histoire naturelle. "L'essentiel des insectes [Parides] provient de collections privées comme celle, classée monument historique et riche en papillons exotiques, de Mme Aimée Fournier de Horrack".
Lathy lived for some years in Paris at 90 Boulevard Malesherbes (Aimée Fournier's address) and then at 70, boulevard Auguste Blanqui and after 1928 in New York City. He was a specialist in Lepidoptera. Lathy was a Member of the Société Entomologique de France (presented by Eugène Le Moult), the Entomological Society of London, the Zoological Society of London and the Entomological Society of America. After retirement Percy Lathy lived at Gagny Seine-et-Oise. He died in the internment camp in Vittel.
Works
Partial list
- 1901 An account of a collection of Rhopalocera made at Zomba in British Central Africa. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 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.
- 1904 "A Contribution Towards the Knowledge of the Lepidoptera-Rhopalocera of Dominica, B.W.I.Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1 (30): 450–453, .
- 1906 A Contribution towards the knowledge of African Rhopalocera Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1906 (1) : 1-10, pl. 1-2
- 1907 Notes on the Indo-Australian Papilionidae. Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 55(1) : 1-6 1 plate
- 1912 Lathy & Rosenberg, 1912 Notes on the genus Catasticta, with descriptions of new species Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 1911 (3) : 519-527, pl. 45-46
- 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'apre`s les originaux de Mlle du Puigaudeau (Odix). fascicule 1 Paris : [G. de Malherbe],
- 1922 An account of the Castniinae in the collection of Madame Gaston Fournier (Lepidoptera). Annals and Magazine of Natural History (9)9(49):68-86
- 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
External links
- EOL Encyclopedia of Life Species described by Percy Ireland Lathy. Type Lathy into the search box.