William Schaus

William Schaus Jr. was son of Wilhelm (later William) Schaus Sr. (1821–1892), a German-immigrant art collector and dealer, proprietor of the Schaus Galleries in New York City, and of Margaret Connover. He was educated initially at Exeter Academy and then in France and Germany, in 1901 and 1905. In 1919 Schaus joined the Bureau of Entomology of the United States Department of Agriculture and, in 1921, began a long association with the Smithsonian Institution as an honorary curator of insects in the United States National Museum, He purchased most of the Dognin Collection for the USNM in 1925. == Death ==

Schaus died on June 20, 1942. ==Legacy==

He described 329 new genera and over five thousand new species of Lepidoptera, mostly from tropical America. The genera Schausia and Schausiana were named in his honor, as well as numerous species with the specific epithet schausi . The common names of the Schaus's crow and Schaus' swallowtail butterflies also refer to him. ==Selected works==

• American Lepidoptera: illustrations of new and rare species. Part I, London: R. H. Porter, 1892. (Work digitized by Biodiversity Heritage Library at ) • Descriptions of new American butterflies 1902. Kessinger Publishing (2010 reprint) ==See also==