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

entomologist Entomology (from Ancient Greek ἔντομον (''éntomon''), meaning "insect", and -logy from λόγος (''lógos''), meaning "study") is the branch of zoology that focuses on insects. Those who study entomology are known as entomologists. In ...

who specialised in

butterflies Butterflies are winged insects from the lepidopteran superfamily Papilionoidea, characterized by large, often brightly coloured wings that often fold together when at rest, and a conspicuous, fluttering flight. The oldest butterfly fossi ...

. 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 in the civil parish of Witley and Milford in the Waverley (borough), Waverley district in Surrey, England. It is centred south west of the town of Godalming and southwest of Guildford. The land is a mixture of rural (ran ...

Surrey Surrey () is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Greater London to the northeast, Kent to the east, East Sussex, East and West Sussex to the south, and Hampshire and Berkshire to the wes ...

Life and career

Percy Ireland Lathy was born in

Pulborough Pulborough is a 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 A29 ...

West Sussex West Sussex is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Surrey to the north, East Sussex to the east, the English Channel to the south, and Hampshire to the west. The largest settlement is Cr ...

, 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. It is also a non-metropolitan district, local government district with Borough status in the United Kingdom, bor ...

then

curator A curator (from , 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 particular ins ...

for Herbert Jordan Adams in Enfield (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 (Lo ...

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

West Indies The West Indies is an island subregion of the Americas, surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, which comprises 13 independent island country, island countries and 19 dependent territory, dependencies in thr ...

(especially

Jamaica Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At , it is the third-largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola—of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, west of Hispaniola (the is ...

) and

South America South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere. It can also be described as the southern Subregion#Americas, subregion o ...

and employed collectors who were sent to

Peru Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pac ...

and

Dutch New Guinea Dutch New Guinea or Netherlands New Guinea (, ) was the western half of the island of New Guinea that was a part of the Dutch East Indies until 1949, later an overseas territory of the Kingdom of the Netherlands from 1949 to 1962. It contained ...

. He also acquired the

Honrath Eduard Gustav Honrath (11 August 1837, in Coblenz – 19 April 1893, in Berlin) was a German entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera, particularly ''Parnassius''. Honrath was a well-known art dealer in Berlin. Among his entomological achieve ...

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 Malesherbes ...

. 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 Morpho may refer to: * ''Morpho'' (genus), a genus of butterflies * Morpho (VTOL), a Swiss prototype drone * Morpho (company) IDEMIA (formerly known as OT-Morpho) is a French multinational technology company headquartered in Courbevoie, Fra ...

'', ''

Agrias ''Agrias'' is a genus of Neotropical realm, Neotropical Charaxinae, charaxine Nymphalidae, nymphalid butterflies found in South America, South and Central America. The German lepidopterist Hans Fruhstorfer wrote: "In this magnificent tropical ge ...

'', '' Catagramma'', ''

Prepona ''Prepona'' is a genus of Neotropical realm, Neotropical Charaxinae, 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 p ...

'',

Papilionidae Swallowtail butterflies are large, colorful Butterfly, 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 includ ...

, ''

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 Nymphalidae, brush-footed butterfly subfamily Charaxinae, or leafwing butterflies. They belong to the tribe ...

'',

Riodininae __NOTOC__ Riodininae is the largest of the three subfamilies within the metalmark butterfly family Family (from ) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or Affinity (law), affinity (by ma ...

and

Lycaenidae Lycaenidae is the second-largest family (biology), 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 Aimée Fournier collection is now in

Muséum national d'histoire naturelle The French National Museum of Natural History ( ; abbr. MNHN) is the national natural history museum of France and a of higher education part of Sorbonne University. The main museum, with four galleries, is located in Paris, France, within the Ja ...

. "L'essentiel des insectes 'Parides''">Parides.html" ;"title="'Parides">'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 Groupe Lactalis S.A. (doing business as Lactalis) is a French multinational dairy products corporation, owned by the Besnier family and based in Laval, Mayenne, France. The company's former name was Besnier S.A. Lactalis is the largest dairy p ...

(presented by Eugène Le Moult), the

Entomological Society of London The Royal Entomological Society is a learned society devoted to the study of insects. It aims to disseminate information about insects and to improve communication between entomologists. The society was founded in 1833 as the Entomological S ...

, the

Zoological Society of London The Zoological Society of London (ZSL) is a charity and organization devoted to the worldwide animal conservation, conservation of animals and their habitat conservation, habitats. It was founded in 1826. Since 1828, it has maintained London Zo ...

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

Gagny Gagny () is a commune in the eastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the center of Paris. Geography Gagny is located 10 km to the east of Paris. Until the law of 10 July 1964, the commune was part of the department of Sein ...

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

internment camp Internment is the imprisonment of people, commonly in large groups, without Criminal charge, charges or Indictment, intent to file charges. The term is especially used for the confinement "of enemy citizens in wartime or of terrorism suspects ...

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. A series of negotiations involving Nestlé, local agr ...

, 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'', 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.'') ...

'' (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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