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to the Micros; for the patient study of these his quiet, painstaking 

 nature and his delicately clever fingers equipped him well. He loved 

 to breed the tiny creatures and to work out their life-histories for his 

 friend, who was then preparing his great work upon the subject. 

 Thanks to what Stainton calls his " untiring energy," Thomas Boyd 

 was successful in adding eleven new species to the " British List " 

 between 1853 and 1858, five of which were new to Science. The new 

 species were : — 



Gelechia occUatella, Boyd, taken at the Lizard, Cornwall. [Weekly 

 Int., vol. iv., p. 143, and Knt. Ann., 1859, p. 151). 



Gli/pliipteri/.i' schoenicolella, Boyd, lisclieiiella, Zell., bred from the 

 Lizard. {Weekly Int., vol. iv., p. 144 and Ent. Ann., 1859, p. 153). 



Nepticula pninetornin, Sta., bred from Loudwater, Bucks. {Ent. 

 Ann., 1855, p. 72, second edit.). 



Xeptieula atricollis, Sta., bred. {Ent. Ann., 1857, p. 112). 



Nepticula luteella, Sta., bred. {Ent. Ann., 1857, p. 110, and 1866, 

 p. 37). 



And the species new to Britain were : — 



Diaxemia raiiiburialis, Dup., taken at Probus, in Cornwall. {Ent. 

 Ann., 1859, p. 149, u-itli /?//.) 



Flatyptilia calodactyla {zetterstedti), Zell., taken at Lynmouth, 

 Devon. {Ent. Ann., 1856, p. 44). 



Gelechia arundinetella, Zell., bred from near Hackney. {Knt. 

 Weekly Int., vol. iii, p. 139, and Ent. Ann., 1858, p. 91). 



Gelechia leucomelanella , Zell., bred from the Lizard, Cornwall. 

 {Evt. Ann., 1859, p. 150). 



Coleophora limosipennella, Fisch., and F. v. R. bred. Ent. Comp., 

 p. 133, and Ent. Ann., 1855, p. 67). 



Nepticula arcuatella, H.S., N. arciiata, Frey, bred. {Ent. Ann., 

 1858, p. 97). 



He also was the first to breed. 



Coleophora infiatae, Sta. {Ent. Ann., 1857, p. 105). 



But Thomas Boyd was no narrow specialist ; he took a broad view 

 of Nature, the study of which was ever to him " the contemplative 

 man's recreation ; " in particular he was also a good field botanist, a 

 conchologist and a microscopist. And though he never wrote much, 

 soon after the publication of the " Origin of Species " in 1859, he felt 

 compelled to champion Darwin's theories in an interesting article on 

 the subject which he contributed to the leading entomological journal 

 of those days, the Weekly Intelliyencer (vol. ix, p. 149), because, he 

 says, Darwin " has received such a scant measure of fairplay in your 

 pages." 



Thomas Boyd married Sarah Harriette Stone (daughter of the 

 Revd. William Stone, M.A.) in 1864, and leaves two sons and three 

 daughters. In subsequent years active work in Entomology was 

 " crowded out " by many other interests. But the old zest for 

 observation never died, and it was a red letter day in his later life when 

 he watched two specimens of Euvanessa antiopa floating about in the 

 sunshine in a garden at Ventnor ; one of these he eventually persuaded 

 himself to net. About thirty years ago he handed over the best 

 things in his collection of Lepidoptera, including the above-named 

 types, to his cousin the late William Christopher Boyd of The Grange, 

 W'altham Cross {Eiit. Mo. May., vol. xliii, p. 16), in whose cabinets 

 they still remain. — W.G. 



