'''Edwin Felix Thomas Atkinson''', (Sept. 6, 1840 , Tipperary, Ireland; d. Sept. 15, 1890 , Calcutta,_India) was an Irish Entomologist. Atkinson was a lawyer specialising in Indian Law on which he wrote several books.He joined the Indian Civil Service in 1862.He also published a Gazetteer of Northwestern India. He died from Bright’s_disease. ==Works== *1888. Notes on Indian Rhynchota; Heteroptera. No. 4. ''J. Asiat. Soc. Beng''. 57: 118-184 * 1889. Notes on Indian Rhynchota; Heteroptera. No. 5. ''J. Asiat. Soc. Beng''. 58: 20-109 *1890. Catalogue of the Insecta. Order Rhynchota. Suborder Hemiptera-Heteroptera. Family Capsidae. ''J. Asiat. Soc. Beng.'' (Nat. Sci. Suppl.)58: 25-200 ==Collections== Heteroptera collection Natural_History_Museum BMNH and Dresden (via Staudinger & Otto_Bang-Haas). ==Source== Poggi and Conci (1996) for biographical information. Atkinson, Edwin Felix