Illustrator Harold Maxwell-Lefroy (1877 – 1925)

Don Herbison-Evans (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley

Harold Maxwell-Lefroy was a professor of entomology at Imperial College London, and was later made the first Imperial Entomologist to India. He made drawings of his own specimens in his landmark book:

Indian Insect Life: A Manual of the Insects of the Plains, 1909,
Agricultural Research Institute, Pusa,
Calcutta and Simla, Thackecker Spink & Co., 2 Creed Lane, London.

Copies of some illustrations in this website by Harold Maxwell-Lefroy :-

Parapoynx stagnalis ACENTROPINAE	Bombyx mori	Phthorimaea operculella GELECHIIDAE	Hypsopygia mauritialis PYRALINAE
Antigastra catalaunalis SPILOMELINAE

Australian butterflies

Australian Lepidoptera

Lepidoptera artists

Australian moths

(written 21 July 2026, updated 20 August 2026)