Arthur Mills Lea

As a child, Lea was interested in insects and studied them in his spare time.

Then in 1899 he was appointed government entomologist in Tasmania, where he succeeded in controlling the codling moth.

From 1924 he took a 12-month appointment with the government of Fiji to investigate the Levuana moth, a pest attacking copra crops.

Lea searched for a fly parasite, eventually finding one in Malaya, of the family Tachinidae.

(see John Douglas Tothill) Lea also collected specimens in New Caledonia, and when his eyesight began to fail he relied on his assistant, Norman Tindale to make drawings.