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paraljsif, which doprivcd him of the power of locomotion), being actually engaged at 

 tlio time of his decease upon a catalogue of the TenthredinidcB of the Nortluunbrian 

 district, and having published some observations in this Magazine so late as the 7th 

 IVIarch last. As an entomologist, his name is familiar to those of the present and 

 last generations (with all genuine workers of which he corresponded), since he never 

 ceased from the task of recording and elucidating the insect-fauna of his district for 

 tliirty years before his death, and his notes on the habits, &c., of insects of all orders 

 arc scattered over the pages of the Transactions of the Local Societies to which he 

 belonged, of the " Zoologist," and of this Magazine (in the latter, no less than fifty- 

 six in number). The " Catalogue of the Insects of Northumberland and Durham, 

 Coleoptera," piiblished by Mr. J. Hardy and himself in the Transactions of the 

 Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club, 1852, was, however, the first of the more important 

 works with which his name will be connected, and which are not the least valuable 

 of the services which that Society (perhaps the best of all British Local Associations) 

 has rendered to practical science. Mr. Bold from time to time in 1864, 1865, and 

 1867, published various corrections and additions to this list, and finally, in 1871, in 

 the Natural History Transactions of Northumberland and Durham, Vol. iv, entirely 

 reconstructed it ; following it up with a similar catalogue of the iremiptera-Hete- 

 roptera of the district, and a list of the JLomoptera new- to Northumberland. lie 

 also carefully investigated the Heterogyna, Fossores, and Anthophila of the same 

 district, and was collecting literary and other materials for a similar elaboration of 

 the IchneuvionidcB. Although not a descriptive Naturalist (only two species founded 

 by him occur to us : Macrocoleus Ilardyi in Ilemiptera, and Scymnus lividus in 

 ColeopteraJ, we are practically indebted to him for the addition to the British fauna 

 list of Pompilus melanarius, Passaloecus monilicornis, and Strongylogaster jilicis 

 (Hymenoplera), and Anchomenus 4-punctatus, Bemhidiiim Fockii, A-signatitm, 

 ohliqitum, and ScJiitppelli, Ilalipliis rariits, Colymbetes dispar, Phytosiis nigriventris 

 (balticusj, Aleochara villosa, Tachyusacarhonaria, Mycetoponts lo7igtcIits, Bryoporns 

 castaneiis (practically a new species), Platystethus capita, Meligethes hrunnicornis, 

 Cryptophagus ladius,fumatus, dentatus, and validus, Ephistemus glohosiis, Anom- 

 matiis \2-striatiis, Aphodius foelidtis, and Plaps mortisaga (ColeopteraJ . 



Mr. Bold was born near Tanficld, Durham, in September, 1816, and from his 

 18th year resided in or near Newcastle, being engaged in the seed trade. In retire- 

 ment, he taught himself French, Latin, and German enough for entomological 

 purposes, and gradually acquired a working library of works in those languages. 

 He was indcfatigably industrious, of a generous disposition, ever ready to assist 

 others, and incapa])le of enduring a " sham," or the appearance of insincerity. The 

 work of a local faunist, humble enough in cdmparison with higher aims, was never- 

 theless ennobled by him, for he did it with his whole heart, and did it well : nor 

 was his genuine worth unnoticed in his own country, for he was Vice-President of 

 the Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club, Associate and Honorary Entomological Curator 

 of the Natural History Society of Northumberland, &c., and Honorary Member of 

 the Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle. It is to be hoped that those 

 Associations may find a successor able and willing to complete the work he had so 

 well carried on, and so nearly completed. 



