Primarily known as a Lepidopterist but did publish 'Abundance of Cetonia aurata in 1895' in Ent.mon.Mag., 32, 1896, 40-41, and 'Early appearance of Cicindela campestris' in ibid, 35, 1899, 93. Bankes was an active and successful field worker until about 1909 when he became ill.
His library passed to the HDO and his Lepidoptera to the NHM, where there is also a large collection of his manuscript material. Pedersen (2002),118, lists a letter, to C.J. Wainwright in the RES. There are obituaries in EMM, 66, 1930, 63 (anon); Ent., 63, 1930, 47-48 (R. Adkin) and Proc.ent.Soc.Lond., 5, 1931, 130-131 (K. Jordan). (MD 9/01, 11/09)
Dates
1861 ?1862 - 9 December 1929