George Talbot

Contributions to Entomology Talbot became a Fellow of the Entomological Society in 1908. He wrote about 150 papers, many of them generic revisions in the Bulletin of the Hill Museum (1921–1932) (which he also co-edited with Joicey) and in the series entitled The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. His best known works are his monograph on Delias (a revision of the whole genus) and the three Pieridae volumes of Lepidopterorum Catalogus published by Wilhelm Junk.

Through his work as an entomologist, Talbot "won for himself a position of eminence and respect in his own sphere."

Selected works

A monograph of the pierine genus Delias, v + 656 p., 2 illus., LXXI pl. (part. col.), in six parts (1928–1937). The first five parts were published by John Bale, Sons & Danielsson under the auspices of the Hill Museum (1928–1930); the last part by the British Museum (Natural History) (1937). Fifteen of the seventy-one plates are chromolithographs. John Bale were one of the last (possibly the last) firm of chromolithographers in London. In Lepidopterorum Catalogus. Dr W. Junk Publishers, Berlin and The Hague. (1911-1939), in three volumes: Pieridae: I (53, 1932), II (60, 1934), III (66, 1935) In The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Taylor and Francis, London, in two volumes: Butterflies. Vol. 1. Papilionidae, Pieridae, xxix + 600 p., 184 fig., 1 folding map, 3 col. pl. (1939) Butterflies. Vol. 2. Danaidae to Acraeidae, xv + 506 p., 104 figs, 2 col. pl. (1947)

With James John Joicey: New Species of Heterocera from Dutch New Guinea. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8)15: 295-301, pl. XII (1915) New Lepidoptera from the Schouten Islands. Trans. Entomol. Soc. Lond. 64(1): 65–83, pls 3–6 (1916) New Heterocera from Dutch New Guinea. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist (8)20: 50–87, pls 1–4 (1917) New Lepidoptera from Waigeu, Dutch New Guinea and Biak. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8)20: 216–229 (1917) New South-American Rhopalocera. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1917: 259-264, pl I (1918) New South-American Arctiidae. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1917: 265-270, pl I (1918) New butterflies from Africa and the east. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1917: 271-272 (1918) A Gynandromorph of Papilio lycophron Hbn. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1917: 273, pl II (1918) Three Aberrations of Lepidoptera. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1917: 275-276, pl I (1918) New forms of Indo-Australian butterflies. Bull. Hill Mus. 1(3): 565–569 (1924) New forms of Lepidoptera Rhopalocera. Encycl. Entomol. (B III Lepidoptera)2: 1–14 (1926) New forms of Rhopalocera in the Hill Museum. Bull. Hill Mus. 2(1): 19–27 (1928) Also see the BioNames database linking taxonomic names to their original descriptions.