William Harry Evans

William Harry Evans (1876–1956), English entomologist (Lepidoptera)

Active in India.

Brigadier William Harry Evans, CSI CIE DSO, was born on 22nd July, 1876, at Shillong, Assam, the third son of General Sir Horace Moule Evans KCB. At the age of eighteen he joined the Royal Engineers. He was posted East in 1898, and in that year he was already collecting butterflies in Chitra! His final post was with Western Command at Quetta as Chief Engineer. Stoically, as was so very characteristic of him, he put in a full day's work daily at the Museum throughout the war, at a window facing south on to Cromwell Road, where one morning he was caught in the explosion of a German Vl rocket bomb which burst on the roadway about 100 yards away. Cut, bruised, badly shaken and with his hearing seriously affected (permanently, as it later transpired), his only complaint was of the loss of the specimens he had been examining, and of which nothing remained but the pins and labels. However, within hours he was at work again, though it was little short of a miracle that he was not killed. His task was to complete the Revision of the Hesperiidae of the World, as he so often said "before he died". Often, during his last few years, we wondered, as he did, whether death would win, but the victory was his. For more see his obituary in The Lepidopterists' News.

Author abbreviation: W.H. Evans

Taxon names authored

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• 1,464 taxon names authored by William Harry Evans

Publications

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1903

• Leslie, G.A. & Evans, W.H. 1903. The Butterflies of Chitral. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, Vol.14(4): 666–678. BHL. Reference page. 

1910

• Evans, W.H. 1910. A list of the Butterflies in the Palni Hills. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 20: 380–391.BHL. Reference page. 

1912

• Evans, W.H. 1912. A List of Indian Butterflies. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 21(2): 553–584. Reference page. 
• Evans, W.H. 1912. A List of Indian Butterflies (continued). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 21(3): 969–1008. BHL text. Reference page. 

1913

• Evans, W.H. 1913. Notes on Indian butterflies, Pt. 1. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 22(2): 279–282. BHL. Reference page. 
• Evans, W.H. 1913. Notes on Indian butterflies, Pt. 2. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 22(4): 761–770. BHL. Reference page. 

1914

• Evans, W.H. 1914. Notes on Indian butterflies, Pt. 3. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 23(2): 302–310. BHL. Reference page. 
• Evans, W.H. 1914. A List of the butterflies caught by Capt. F. M. Bailey in S. E. Tibet during 1913. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 23: 532–546, 1 pl., 1 map. Reference page. 

1920

• Evans, W.H. 1920. Notes on Indian butterflies, Pt. 4. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 26(4): 1021–1023. BHL. Reference page. 
• Evans, W.H. 1920. Notes on Indian butterflies, Pt. 5. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 27(1): 86–93. BHL. Reference page. 

1921

• Evans, W.H. 1921. Notes on Indian butterflies. Pt. 6. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 28(1): 30–40. Reference page. 

1922

• Evans, W.H. 1922. The Identification of Indian Butterflies, Pt.1 (intro). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 28(3): 739–747. Reference page. 

1923

• Evans, W.H. 1923. A list of butterflies caught by Major H. T. Morshead during the Mt. Everest expedition, 1921. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 70(3/4): 477–478. Reference page. 
• Evans, W.H. 1923. The Identification of Indian butterflies, Pt.1 (continued). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 29(1): 230–260, 9 pls. Reference page. 
• Evans, W.H. 1923. The Identification of Indian butterflies, Pt.2. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 29(2): 519–537, Pls. X, XI, XII. Reference page. 

1924

• Evans, W.H. 1924. The Identification of Indian butterflies, Pt.3. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 29(4): 780–797, 4 pls. Reference page. 
• Evans, W.H. 1924. The Identification of Indian butterflies, Pt.4. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 29(3): 890–907, 2 pls. Reference page. 
• Evans, W.H. 1924. The Identification of Indian butterflies, Pt.5. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 30(1): 72-96, 5 pls. Reference page. 
• Evans, W.H. 1924. Notes on Indian butterflies, Pt. 7. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 29(4): 971–973. BHL. Reference page. 
• Evans, W.H. 1924. The Identification of Indian butterflies, Pt.6. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 30(1): 72–96, 4 pls. BHL. Reference page. 

1925

• Evans, W.H., (1925). The identification of Indian butterflies, Pt.7. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 30(2): 322–351, 2 pls. BHL. Reference page. 
• Evans, W.H. 1925. The identification of Indian butterflies, Pt.8. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 30(3): 610–639, pl.28. BHL. Reference page. 
• Evans, W.H. 1925. The identification of Indian butterflies, Pt.9. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 30(4): 756-776, pl.29. Reference page. 

1926

• Evans, W.H. 1926. The Identification of Indian butterflies, Pt.10. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 31(1): 49–83, 1 pl. BHL. Reference page. 
• Evans, W.H. 1926. The Identification of Indian butterflies, Pt.11. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 31(2): 427–447, 1 pl. BHL. Reference page. 
• Evans, W.H. 1926. The Identification of Indian butterflies, Pt.12. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 31(3): 615–637, 1 pl. BHL Reference page. 
• Evans, W.H. 1926. Notes on Indian butterflies, Pt. 8. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 31(3): 712–719. BHL. Reference page. 

1927

• Evans, W.H. 1927. The identification of Indian butterflies, Edition 1, xii + 302 pp., 32 pls, 11 figs. Madras. Text, plates. Reference page. 
• Evans, W.H. 1927. Lepidoptera - Rhopalocera obtained by Madame J. Visser-Hooft of The Hague during an exploration of previously unknown country in the Western Karakorum, N. W. India. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 70: 158–162. BHL Reference page. 

1928

• Evans, W.H. 1928. Descriptions of Some New Hesperiidae from the Australian Region in the Tring Museum. Novitates Zoologicae 34: 71–74. Reference page. 

1932

• Evans, W.H. 1932. The Identification of Indian Butterflies, Edn.2 revised, 454pp., 32 pls. Madras. Reference page. 

1933

• Evans, W.H. 1933. Some little known or apparently unrecorded Lycaenidae and Hesperiidae from the Malay Peninsula. J. Fed. Malay St. Mus. 17(2): 406–417. Reference page. 

1934

• Evans, W.H. 1934. Indo-Australian Hesperiidae: descriptions of new genera, species and subspecies (1-5). The Entomologist 67(2): (1) 33-36; (3) 61-65; (7) 141-151; (8) 181-184; (9) 206-209; (10) 231-234. Reference page. 

1935

• Evans, W.H. 1935. Indo-Australian Hesperiidae: descriptions of new genera, species and subspecies. The Entomologist 68: 65–67; 87–90. Reference page. 
• Evans, W.H. 1935. The Genus Potanthus, Scudder (Lepidoptera, Hesperiidae). Stylops 4: 100-101. Reference page. 
• Evans, W.H., 1935. [New names for Genera of Hesperiidae]. Notes on page 405 of Carpenter, 1935, The Rhopalocera of Abyssinia, etc. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 68(3): 405. Reference page. 

1936

• Evans, W.H., 1936. Description of a new genus of American Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera). Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London. (B)5(3): 55. Reference page. 

1937

• Evans, W.H. 1937. Indo-Australian Hesperiidae: descriptions of new genera, species and subspecies. The Entomologist 70: 16-19, 38–40; 64–66, 81–83. Reference page. 
• Evans, W.H. 1937. A Catalogue of the African Hesperiidae: indicating the classification and nomenclature adopted in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1–212. Reference page. 
• Evans, W.H., 1937. A new genus and a new species of South American Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera). Revista Entomologia de Rio de Janeiro 7: 88-89. Reference page. 

1938

• Evans, W.H. 1938. New African Hesperiidae. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History 11(1): 312–315. 4 figs. Reference page. 

1939

• Evans, W.H. 1939. Some interesting Malayan Hesperiidae, and an analysis of the genus Sepa. Journal of the Federated Malay States Museums 18(3): 395–405, 1pl. Reference page. 
• Evans, W.H., 1939. New species and subspecies of Hesperiidae (Lepdoptera) obtained by Herr H. Hone in China in 1930-1936. Proc. Roy. Ent Soc. Lond. (B)8(8):163-166. Wiley Lib. Reference page. 

1940

• Evans, W.H. 1940. The Type of the Genus Pyrrhopyge (Lepidoptera—Hesperiidae). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 48: 405–411. Reference page. 
• Evans, W.H. 1940. Description of three new Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera) from China. The Entomologist 73: 230. Reference page. 

1941

• Evans, W.H. 1941. A List of the Butterflies of Sumatra. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal LXIV Pt.II 64(3): 357–55. Reference page. 
• Evans, W.H. 1941. The callineura group of the genus Plastingia (Lep. Hesp.). Annals & Magazine of Natural History (11)8: 66–71. Reference page. 
• Evans, W.H. 1941. A revision of the genus Erionota Mabille (Lep.: Hesp.). The Entomologist 74: 158–160. Reference page. 
• Evans, W.H. 1941. Changes in nomenclature affecting Malayan Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera). Entomologist 74: 244–246. Reference page. 

1942

• Evans, W.H. 1942. Spolia Mentawiensis: Rhopalocera Hesperiidae. Annals and Magazine of natural History 11(9): 641–644. Reference page. 
• Evans, W.H., 1942. A key to the American species of the genus Pyrgus (Lep. Hesperiidae). Revista de Entomologia Rio de Janeiro 13(3):359-366. Reference page. 

1943

• Evans, W.H., 1943. Revision of the Genus Suastus Moore (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae). Proceedings of the Royal entomological Society of London (B)12(7/8): 95–96. Reference page. 
• Evans, W.H.., 1943. Revision of the Genus Aeromachus de N. (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae). Proceedings of the Royal entomological Society of London (B)12(7/8): 97–101. Reference page. 

1944

• Evans, W.H. 1944. An analysis of the genus Heliopetes Billberg (Lepidoptera-Hesperiidae) with genitalia drawings. Entomologist 77: 179–185. Reference page. 

1946

• Evans, W.H. 1946. Revisional notes on the African Hesperiidae. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History (11)13: 641–648, ill. PDF.Reference page. 

1949

• Evans, W.H. 1949. A catalogue of the Hesperiidae from Europe, Asia and Australia in the British Museum (Natural History). xix+502pp., 53 pls. BMNH, London. Reference page. 
• Evans, W.H., 1949. Some new Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera) from Africa. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History (12) 2: 54-56, 1 pl. Reference page. 

1951

• Evans, W.H. 1951–55. A Catalogue of the American Hesperiidae in the British Museum. Pt.1 (1951): x+92pp, pls.1–9; Pt.2 (1952): v.+178pp, pls.10–25; Pt.3 (1953): v+246pp, pls.26–53; Pt.4 (1955): v+499pp, pls. 54–88. Reference page. 
• Evans, W.H. 1951. Revisional notes on African Hesperiidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (12) 4: 1268–1272, 4 figs. web purchase Reference page. 

1952

• Evans, W.H. 1952. Notes on Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera) from Madagascar. Naturaliste Malagache 4ː 87-88, 1 fig. Reference page. 

1953

• Evans, W.H. 1953. A note on the Indian species of the genus Lycaenopsis Felder (Lepidoptera–Lycaenidae). J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 51(3): 755. BHL. Reference page. 

1954

• Evans, W.H. 1954-1955. A revision of the genus Curetis. Entomologist 87: 190–194, 212–216, 241–247, 13 figs. Reference page. 

1955

• Evans, W.H. 1955. A revision of the genus Tarucus. Entomologist 88: 179–187. Reference page. 

1956

• Evans, W.H. 1956. Revisional notes on African Hesperiidae. Annals and Magazine of natural History 12(8): 881–885. Reference page. 

1957

• Evans, W.H. 1957. A revision of the Arhopala group of oriental lycaenidae (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera) Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology 5(3): 85–141. BHL Reference page. 
• Evans, W.H. 1957. Revisional notes on the Hesperiidae of Europe, Asia and Australia. Annals & Magazine of Natural History 12(9):749-752. Reference page. 

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