William Trowbridge Merrifield Forbes

William Trowbridge Merrifield Forbes (April 23, 1885 Westborough- 12 April 1968 Worcester) was an American entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera and Coleoptera.

Works

Partial List

Coleoptera

• The wing-venation of the Coleoptera. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 15:328-345, pls.29-35 (1922).

• The wing folding patterns of the Coleoptera. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 34:42-68, 91-115, pls.7-18 (1926).

Lepidoptera

• The Lepidoptera of New York and neighboring states: 1. Primitive forms, Microlepidoptera, Pyraloids, Bombyces. Memoir 68. Ithaca,NY: Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station. 729 p.(1923).

• The Lepidoptera of New York and neighboring states: 2. Geometridae, Sphingidae, Notodontidae, Lymantriidae. Memoir 274. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station. 263 p.(1948).

• The Lepidoptera of New York and neighboring states: 3.Noctuidae. Memoir 329. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station. 433 p. (1954)

• The Lepidoptera of New York and neighboring states: 4.Agaristidae through Nymphalidae including butterflies. Memoir 371.Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station. 188 p.(1960

External links

• William L. Brown, Jr. Robert L. Clausen, John G. Franclemont (1968): William Trowbridge Merrifield Forbes, April 23, 1885 — April 12, 1968 at ecommons.library.cornell.edu
• Works by or about William Trowbridge Merrifield Forbes in libraries (WorldCat catalog)