Thomas Henry Allis

Allis was the son of Thomas Allis, a comparative anatomist at York. He attended Friend's School.

As an entomologist Allis was a member of the Entomological Society of London and the Entomological Society of Stettin.^[1] He amassed a large collection of lepidoptera, which was donation by his father to the Yorkshire Philosophical Society.^[2] The collection contained 19,585 specimens of 1,873 species of butterfly and moth.^[2] The collection is one of the largest biological collections in the Yorkshire Museum.^[3] The collection was used as the basis of an exhibition at Shandy Hall in 2005 titled 'The Winged Skull and 8000 other moths'.^[4] Allis had also donated specimens, in 1854, to the Entomological Society of London.^[5]

A species of moth, Exaeretia allisella, is named after Allis.^[1] He had caught the original specimens near Rotherham and Maryport and sent them to H.T. Stainton for his revision of the genus Exaeretia.^[6]

• Allis, T.H. 1869. "Note on Xylina conformis", The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 5. 278
• Allis, T.H. 1870. "Lythria purpuraria, near York", The Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine 6. 238.