Malcolm Burr

Malcolm Burr (1878-1954) was an entomologist. He was a specialist of earwigs (Dermaptera) and crickets and grasshoppers (Orthoptera).

The exact diversity and biology of the Dermapterans of Sri Lanka is well studied due to major contributions by M. Burr in 1901.

Works

• Notes on the Forficularia.—A. Descriptions of new species and a new genus. M Burr, Journal of Natural History, 1900
• The earwigs of Ceylon. M Burr, Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 1901
• The Orthoptera of Iberia. M Burr, Entomologist's Rec. J. Var, 1901
• On the Forficularia of the Hungarian National Museum of Budapest. M Burr, Természetrajzi Füzetek, 1902
• A Monograph of the genus Acrida, Stål (= Truxalis, Fabr.), with Notes of some allied genera, and descriptions of new species. M Burr, Transactions of the Royal entomological Society of …, 1902
• Notes on the Forficularia—VII. Some hitherto unpublished descriptions of new species, by the late M. Auguste de Bormans. M Burr, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist, 1903
• Earwigs, crickets and grasshoppers. M Burr, The Natural History of Sokotra and Abd-el-Kuri: Being …, 1903
• Observations on the Dermatoptera, including revisions of several Genera, and descriptions of New Genera and Species. M Burr, Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of …, 1904
• Notes on the Forficularia. IX. One new species with synonymic notes. M Burr, Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 1905
• On a few Orthoptera collected in southern Dalmatia and Montenegro in 1900. M Burr, The Entomologist, 1906
• A preliminary revision of the Forficulidæ (sensu stricto) and of the Chelisochidæ, families of the Dermatoptera. M Burr, Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of …, 1907
• On a remarkable new earwig (Dermatoptera) from Portuguese West Africa. M Burr, Entomologist's mon. mag, 1907
• Notes on the Forficularia.—XIII. A revision of the Brachylabidæ (Isolabidæ). M Burr, Journal of Natural History, 1908
• Notes on the Forficularia—XV. The Esphalmeninæ. M Burr, Journal of Natural History, 1909
• A synopsis of the Orthoptera of Western Europe. M Burr, 1910
• The Fauna Of British India Including Ceylon And Burma. M Burr, 1910
• Dermaptera (Earwigs) preserved in Amber, from Prussia. M Burr, Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. 2nd …, 1911
• Genera Insectorum. M Burr - by P. Wytsman, 1911
• Dermaptera. M Burr, PAG Wytsman, 1911
• On Arixenina burr, a suborder of Dermaptera. M Burr, K Jordan, Transactions of the Second International Congress of …, 1912
• A new species of Arixenia (Dermaptera). M Burr, Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, 1912
• Zoological results of the Abor Expedition, 1911-12. M Burr, Rec. Indian Mus, 1913
• Orthoptères. M Burr, 1913
• Notes on the Forficularia.—XXIII. More new species. M Burr, Journal of Natural History, 1914
• More notes on Indian Dermaptera. M Burr, Rec, Indian Mus, 1914
• On the male genital armature of the Dermaptera. Part I.: Protodermaptera (except Psalidae). M Burr, Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society, 1915

Tribute

• Epilandex burri is a species of earwigs named after M. Burr.