Francis Polkinghorne Pascoe

Francis Polkinghorne Pascoe (September 1, 1813- June 20, 1893) was an English entomologist mainly interested in Coleoptera.

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He was born in Penzance Cornwall and trained at St. Bartholomews Hospital. Appointed surgeon in the Navy he served on Australian , West Indian and Mediterranean stations. He married a Miss Glasson of Cornwall and settled near St Austell where his wife's property produced China Clay. Widowed in 1851 he settled in London devoting himself to natural history and entomology in particular. The results of collecting trips to Europe, North Africa and the Lower Amazons were poor and Pascoe worked mainly on insects collected by others. His entomological papers listed and described species collected by Alfred Russel Wallace (in Longicornia Malayana) , Robert Templeton and other assiduous collectors but not prolific writers on systematic entomology. He became a Fellow of the Entomological Society in 1854, was president from 1864-1865, a Member of the Société Entomologique de France and belonged to the Belgian and Stettin Societies. He was also a Fellow of the Linnean Society(elected 1852) and was on the Council of the Ray Society. His 2,500 types are in the Natural History Museum, London.

1858 On new genera and species of longicorn Coleoptera. Part III Trans. Entomol. Soc. London, (2)4:236-266.
1859 On some new genera and species of longicorn Coleoptera. Part IV.Trans.Entomol. Soc. London, (2)5:12-61.
1860 Notices of new or little-known genera and species of Coleoptera. J.Entomol., 1(1):36-64.
1860 Notices of new or little-known genera and species of Coleoptera, pt.II. J. Entomol., 1(2):98-131.
1862 Notices of new or little-known genera and species of Coleoptera. J.Entomol., 1:319-370.
1864-1869 Longicornia Malayana; or a descriptive catalogue of the species of the three longicorn families Lamiidae, Cerambycidae and Prionidae collected by Mr. A. R. Wallace in the Malay Archipelago. Trans.Entomol. Soc. London, (3)3:17-12.
1866 List of the Longicornia collected by the late Mr. P. Bouchard, at Santa Marta. Trans. Entomol. Soc. London, 5(3):279-296.
1867 Diagnostic characters of some new genera and species of Prionidae.Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (3)19:410-413
1875 Notes on Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Part III. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (4)15:59-73.