Lionel de Nicéville

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Charles Lionel Augustus de Nicéville

Indian Subcontinent
and wrote a three volume monograph on the butterflies of India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Burma and Sri Lanka. He also studied the mantids of the Oriental region.

Biography

Born in a noble

skipper butterflies, Crossiura
, in an article in the Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society.

Parnassius stoliczkanus ssp. nicevilli

1899 was a year of great famine coinciding with

economic botanist. The entomologist was de Nicéville, who whilst a lepidopterist was able to co-ordinate work on other insect orders. One of his major works was on the Mantodea of the Oriental region.[3]

He was a Corresponding Member of the

Entomological Society
.

He married Jane Sarah Webb, a widow, at St James' Church Calcutta on 21 September 1881. Their only child, Nora De Niceville, was born in Calcutta on 25 August 1882.

Lionel died of malaria contracted while travelling in the Terai region.[4]

Works

Partial list:

  • 1883 with G. F. L. Marshall. "Butterflies of India, Burmah and Ceylon". Vol. 1. Repr. 1979, New Delhi, 327 pp.
  • 1886. "The Butterflies of India, Burmah and Ceylon". Vol. 2. Repr. 1979, New Delhi, 332 pp.
  • 1890. "The butterflies of India, Burmah and Ceylon". Vol. 3. Repr. 1979, New Delhi, 503 pp.
  • 1892. "On new and little known Butterflies from the Indo-Malayan region", Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 7: 322-356.
  • 1894 "On new and little-known butterflies from the Indo-Malayan region" J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal (II) 63 (1): 1–59, pls. 1–5
  • 1898 "On new and little-known butterflies from the Indo-Malayan, Austro-Malayan and Australian Regions" Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 12 (1): 131–161, 4 pls.
  • 1900 "On new and little-known Lepidoptera from the Oriental region". Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 13, 157–176, 3 pl. (174).

Collection

Part of de Nicéville's butterfly collection was given to the Asiatic Society,

Calcutta in 1880. Other parts were given, in 1902 to the Indian Museum in Calcutta and to the Peter Redpath Museum in Montreal
.

Notes

  1. ^ His name is sometimes spelled as "de Niceville", for instance in: Bingham, Col. C.T. – 'Obituary, Lionel de Niceville,' in: The Zoologist, 4th series, vol 6, issue 727 (January 1902), p. 21/22.
  2. ^ a b Rao, BR Subba (1998) History of entomology in India. Institution of Agricultural Technologist, Bangalore.
  3. ^ Dover, Cedric (1922). "Entomology in India". The Calcutta Review. 3 (2): 336–349.
  4. ^ "Obituary". Sheffield Daily Telegraph. 28 December 1901. p. 6 – via British Newspaper Archive.

References

  • Anonymous 1902: [Nicéville, C. L. A.] Entomologist's Monthly Magazine (2) 38 41
  • Anonymous 1902–1903: The late Mr C. L. de Nicéville J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 14:140–141.
  • Fowler, W. W. 1901: [Nicéville, C. L. A.] Trans. Ent. Soc. London 1901 XXXIV-XXXV
  • Holland, W. J. 1902: Nicéville, C. L. A. Ent. News 13:63.
  • Kirby, W. F. 1902: [Nicéville, C. L. A.] Entomologist 35 79–80
  • Martin, L. 1901: [Nicéville, C. L. A.] Dt. ent. Z. 14 381–386
  • Martin, L. 1902: [Nicéville, C. L. A.]
    Insektenbörse
     19 25–26

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