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entomologist

John Henry Leech was an English entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera and Coleoptera.

Career

His collections from China, Japan and Kashmir are in the Natural History Museum, London.These contain also insects from Morocco, the Canary Islands and Madeira. He wrote British Pyralides (1886) and Butterflies from China, Japan and Corea, three volumes (1892–1894).

Membership

He was a Fellow of the Linnean Society and of the Entomological Society of London, a Member of the Societe Entomologique de France, and of the Entomological Society of Berlin (Entomologischen Verein zu Berlin).