Artist
Horace Knight
 (1884 – 1920)
  
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley


Horace Knight was a natural history illustrator with the British Museum, and lived in Upper Tooting. His son, Edgar S. Knight, was also an illustrator. Horace Knight retired from the British Museum in 1917 due to illness, at which point he had been producing drawings for over 30 years, He worked with his brother E.C. Knight at West, Newman & Co. of Hatton Garden, but also used André & Sleigh Ltd..

Horace Knight was the artist selected by George F. Hampson to illustrate his major multi-volume work

  • Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum.

    Copies of some illustrations in this website drawn by Horace Knight :-

    ACENTROPINAE

    Paracataclysta fuscalis


    ACONTIINAE

    Autoba sphragidota

    Carmara subcervina

    Enispa daphoena

    Enispa niviceps

    Eulocastra phaeozona

    Hyposada hydrocampata

    Maliattha ritsemae

    Micrapatetis leucozona

    Ozarba chrysaspis

    Sarrothripa baeopis

    Xanthograpta purpurascens


    ACRONICTINAE

    Acronicta psorallina

    Athetis maculatra

    Aucha triphaenoides

    Aucha vesta

    Callopistria ferruginea

    Calophasidia dentifera

    Cycloprora nodyna

    Data aroa

    Data pratti

    Diplonephra ditata

    Dipterygina babooni

    Eremochroa macropa

    Eremochroa paradesma

    Eremochroa psammias

    Eremochroa thermidora

    Euplexia polycmeta

    Neumichtis callisina

    Neumichtis mesophaea

    Neumichtis nigerrima

    Neumichtis prolifera

    Neumichtis saliaris

    Neumichtis sepultrix

    Neumichtis signata

    Pachythrix mniochlora

    Pachythrix smaragdistis

    Proteuxoa callimera

    Proteuxoa chrysospila

    Proteuxoa cornuta

    Proteuxoa euchroa

    Proteuxoa gypsina

    Proteuxoa heliosema

    Proteuxoa hydraecioides

    Proteuxoa hypochalchis

    Proteuxoa marginalis

    Proteuxoa mesombra

    Proteuxoa metaneura

    Proteuxoa microspila

    Proteuxoa paragypsa

    Proteuxoa passalota

    Proteuxoa petrodora

    Proteuxoa sarcomorpha

    Proteuxoa tortisigna

    Syntheta xylitis

    Thalatha bryochlora

    Thalatha melaleuca

    Thalatha trichroma


    AGARISTINAE

    Idalima metasticta

    Mimeusemia simplex

    Cruria tropica


    ARCTIINI

    Phaos interfixa

    Spilarctia erythrastis


    BAGISARINAE

    Xanthodes congenita


    BOLETOBIINAE

    Acontia clerana

    Acontia crocata

    Acontia detrita

    Acontia elaeoa

    Acontia nivipicta

    Corgatha minuta

    Eublemma leucodesma

    Eublemma lozostropha

    Eublemma marmaropa

    Eublemma rufipuncta

    Eublemma vestalis


    CALPINAE

    Epicyrtica leucostigma


    CATOCALINI

    Dordura aliena

    Glottula atronitens


    CHLOEPHORINAE

    Aiteta iridias

    Carea unipunctata

    Vizaga mirabilis


    EREBINAE

    Avatha novoguineana

    Bastilla copidiphora

    Dysgonia solomonensis


    HADENINAE

    Mythimna cryptargyria

    Mamestra dictyota

    Dasygaster epundoides


    HELIOTHINAE

    Heliocheilus aberrans

    Heliocheilus canusina

    Heliocheilus cramboides

    Heliocheilus ionola

    Heliocheilus melibaphes

    Heliocheilus mesoleuca

    Heliocheilus osmidus

    Heliothis roseivena


    NOCTUINAE

    Ectopatria aspera

    Ectopatria paurogramma

    Ectopatria pelosticta

    Ectopatria spilonata


    RISOBINAE

    Risoba obstructa


    SARROTHRIPINI

    Thriponea nigrostrigata


    WESTERMANNIINAE

    Westermannia argentata

    Westermannia concha

    Westermannia gloriosa



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    (written 21 July 2026, updated 7 October 2026)