Lionel de Nicéville

[2] Leaving England for India in 1870, de Nicéville became a clerk in a government office (Calcutta Small Cause Court) but from at least 1881, devoted all of his spare time to entomology.

[2] He made collections on these trips and wrote a series of papers in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal (1881, 1882, 1883 and 1885) and in 1890 the results were summarised in the Gazetteer of Sikhim (1890) in which G. A Gammie and De Niceville recorded about 631 species of butterflies found in Sikkim.

In 1892 he proposed a new genus of skipper butterflies, Crossiura, in an article in the Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society.

"Our real reform has been to endeavour for the first time to apply science on a large scale to the study and practice of Indian agriculture."

He married Jane Sarah Webb, a widow, at St James' Church Calcutta on 21 September 1881.