Edward Yerbury Watson

Edward Yerbury Watson (died 8 November 1897) was an English entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera most notably Hesperiidae.

Yerbury Watson joined the North Lancashire regiment as Lieutenant in 1884^[1] later joining the Madras Staff Corps (6 Feb 1884^[2]) and rising to become Deputy Assistant Commissary General on the Indian Staff Corps. He died from a shot fired during the Tirah Campaign.

He was a Member of the Bombay Natural History Society, a Fellow of the Zoological Society of London and from 1891 of the Entomological Society of London. His India collections are conserved by the Natural History Museum, London.

Works

• Hesperiidae Indicae ... being a reprint of the descriptions of the Hesperiidae of India, Burma and Ceylon.Madras, Vest, 1891.
• A proposed classification of the Hesperiidae, with a revision of the genera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1893:3-132.(1893)
• A key to the Asiatic genera of the Hesperiidae. J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 9(4), pp. [411-437] (1895).

Notes

1. London Gazette. Feb 5, 1884 p. 535
2. London Gazette May 17, 1887 p.2706

References

• Entomologist's Monthly Magazine Second series Vol. VIII [VOL. XXXIII.] 1897 :283