John Nevill Eliot

English Lepidopterist, specialist in the Lycaenidae. Held army Rank of Lieutenant Colonel, but now deceased.

Works include

• Eliot, J. N., 1956. New and little-known Rhopalocera from the Oriental Region. Bull. Raffles Mus. 27: 32-38, text-figs.
• Eliot, J. N., 1969. More revisional notes on oriental butterflies. Entomologist 102: 269-278, 8 figs., 1 pl.
• Eliot, J. N., 1973. The higher classification of the Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera): a tentative arrangement. Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (28) 6: 375-505, 162 figs., 6 pls.
• Eliot, J. N., 1978. In Corbet & Pendlebury, The Butterflies of the Malay Peninsula. 2nd Edn. Kuala Lumpur.
• Eliot, J. N. and Kawazoe, A., 1983. Blue butterflies of the Lycaenopsis group: 1-309, 6 pls. London.
• Eliot, J. N., 1992. In Corbet & Pendlebury, The Butterflies of the Malay Peninsula. 3rd Edn. Kuala Lumpur.