James Farish Malcolm Fawcett

James Malcolm Fawcett (J.Malcolm Fawcett), born c. 1856, was an English entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera.

He matriculated at University of Oxford in 1875 at the age of 19.^[1]

He lived at Peckleton House, Hinckley, Leicestershire^[2] and was married on 20 October 1888 to Caroline Agar-Ellis (1866–91).^[3]

His collection of African moths was acquired by Walter Rothschild for his museum at Tring and are now in the Natural History Museum in London. His butterflies were sold by auction.

Fawcett's clouded yellow is named for him.

Works

• "Notes on the transformations of some South-African Lepidoptera," Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, vol. 17, part 2 (1903)
• [Minutes of meeting 7 June 1904], Abstr. Proc. zool Soc. Lond. 1904 (9): 8-9 (1904), in which some Colias species are newly described
• "Notes on a collection of Heterocera made by Mr. W. Feather in British East Africa, 1911-13," Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond 1917: 233-250 (1918)

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