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  • n  an entomologist who specializes in the collection and study of butterflies and moths

  • For the rest of his life, with the pure, cold, scientific passion of a lepidopterist, he was true to butterflies.
  • Besides being a scholar, critic, translator, chess player, lepidopterist and eccentric, he is one of those relatively rare writers who in the midst of their career have been .
  • As professional lepidopterist, Nabokov has claimed the discovery of several butterflies since he came to America, notably of Neonympha Dorothea, a creature named for a friend who .
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  • Butterflies star in watershed walk
    The Norwalk River Watershed Association will have a butterfly walk with lepidopterist Victor DeMasi, research affiliate for the Peabody Museum in New Haven, on Saturday, Aug. 10 from 10 to noon (rain date: Sunday, Aug. 11).
    Aug. 8, 2013 - Ridgefield Press

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