page_title: William Forsell Kirby
section_title: Entomology
hierarchical_section_title: William Forsell Kirby / Publications / Entomology
caption_attribution_description: English: A drawing of Thopha saccata
context_page_description: William Forsell Kirby was an English entomologist and folklorist.
context_section_description: Manual of European Butterflies, on the plan of Stainton's manual of British Butterflies and Moths, 1862
  A synonymic catalogue of diurnal Lepidoptera, 1871
  A synonymic catalogue of diurnal Lepidoptera (Supplment), 1877
  Catalogue of the collection of diurnal Lepidoptera formed by the late William Chapman Hewitson, of Otlands, Walton-on Thames; and bequeathed by him to the British Museum, 1879
  European butterflies and moths ... Based upon Berge's "Schmetterlingsbuch", 1882
  "Tenthredinidoe and Siricidoe", List of Hymenoptera, with descriptions and figures of the typical specimens in the British Museum, 1, 1882
  British Butterflies, Moths & Beetles, 1885
  Elementary text-book of entomology, 1885
  A synonymic catalogue of Lepidoptera Heterocera. (Moths) : Vol. 1. Sphinges and Bombyces, 1 Sphinges and Bombyces, 1892
  A Hand-book to the Order Lepidoptera
  Butterflies (Part.1), 1, 1896
  Butterflies (Part.2), 2, 1896
  Moths (Part.1), 3, 1897
  Moths (Part.2), 4, 1897
  Moths (Part.3), 5, 1897
  Marvels of Ant Life, 1898
  A synonymic catalogue of Neuroptera Odonata, or dragon-flies. With an appendix of fossil species, 1890
  Familiar butterflies and moths, 1901
  The Butterflies and moths of Europe, Cassell & Co. Ltd., London, 1903, pp. 432 pp.
  A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera, British Museum (Natural History)
  Orthoptera, Euplexoptera, Cursoria, et Gressoria, 1, 1904
  Orthoptera Saltatoria (Part.1) - Achetidae et Phasgonuridae, 1906
  Orthoptera Saltatoria (Part.2) - Locustidae vel Acridiidae, 3, 1910
  "Orthoptera (Acridiide)", The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma, 1914
  Collaborative works, and other acknowledgements
  Hewitson, William Chapman (1862), Illustrations of diurnal Lepidoptera, 1 (Text)
  Hewitson, William Chapman (1862), Illustrations of diurnal Lepidoptera, 1 (Plates)
  Gross-Smith, Henley (1887), Rhopalocera exotica; being illustrations of new, rare, and unfigured species of butterflies, London: Gurney & Jackson
  (Papilionidae - Papilioninae), 1
  (Nymphalidae - Danainae - Ravadeba - Satyridae - Nymphalidae - Elymniinae), 2
  (Erycinidae - Lemoniidae - Lycaenidae), 3 , with index
  Lydekker, Ricard; Kirby, W. F.; Woodward, Bernard Barham; Kirkpatrick, R.; Pocock, R. I.; Sharpe, Richard Bowdler; Garstang, Walter; Bather, Francis Arthur; Bernard, Henry Meyners (1897), Natural History
  Hubner, Jacob; Geyer, Carl (1908), Zuträge zur Sammlung exotischer Schmetterlinge : bestehend in Bekundigung einzelner Fliegmuster neuer oder rarer nichteuropäischer Gattungen, 1 , index and introductions
  Hubner, Jacob (1908), Zuträge zur Sammlung exotischer Schmetterlinge : bestehend in Bekundigung einzelner Fliegmuster neuer oder rarer nichteuropäischer Gattungen, 2 , index and introductions
caption: An illustration of Thopha saccata appearing in Kirby's 1885 Elementary text-book of entomology
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