A Captain. Fowler and Arrow in their FBI volumes, 1912 and 1917, note that he collected Paussidae and Rutelinae at Bombay. Could this be the 'Commander Downes' after whom W. Hope named Lucanus downesii perhaps ('Characters and Descriptions of several New Genera and Species of Coleopterous Insects', Trans.ZSL., 1, 1833, p.99)? The same paper also refers to Captain Downes as the author of Prionus hayesii in a MSS (104), which at that time was the largest beetle known. (MD 9/02)