Biography

Adrien Louis Jean François Sumichrast, Swiss-born Mexican naturalist and collector (Yvorne, Vaud Canton 15 October 1828 – Tonale, Chiapas State 26 December 1882)

Performed collections of many animal and plant species mainly birds and reptiles

SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY

Notes sur une collection de reptiles et de batraciens de la partie occidentale de l’isthme de Tehauntepec. Bull. Soc. Zool. France 15:162-90, 1906

Observations sur les moeurs de l’Heloderma horridum. C.R. Hebd. Seances Acad. Sci. 80:676-9, 1875

The geographical distribution of the native birds of the Department of Vera Cruz with a list of the migratory species. Mem. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 1:542-63, 1869

Note on habits of certain species of Mexican Hymenoptera. Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc. 1868

On the habits of the Mexican species of the genus Ecitron Latr. Trans. Amer. Entom. Soc. 1868

Notes on habits of some Mexican Reptiles. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. Ser. 3(13):497-507, 1864

Note sur les moeurs des quelques reptiles du Mexique. Bibl. Univ. Rev. Suisse 19:45-61, 1864

HONORS

Sumichrastia Townsend 1916 (Diptera)