206 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



With the exception of two or three years' residence in 

 Cambridge, about five and twentj' years ago, Mr. Bond lived all 

 his life in or near London, — at Kingsbury until 1855, afterwards 

 in Cavendish Road, St. John's Wood, and Adelaide Road, Haver- 

 stock Hill ; whilst the last sixteen or seventeen years of his life 

 were spent at Staines. He was elected a member of the Ento- 

 mological Society in 1841, and joined the Zoological Society in 

 1854. At the meetings of the former he was for man}^ years a 

 regular attendant and exhibitor, though latterl}', owing to his 

 retirement to Staines and his increasing deafness, the Society has 

 missed his genial presence. 



I am not aware that he ever travelled beyond the seas ; but 

 his shooting and collecting excursions were frequent, and extended 

 to all parts of the Island. During his long career he captured so 

 many rarities that it is impossible to enumerate the species. 

 Conspicuous among them was the lost Noctua suhrosea ; and in 

 his early days he both captured and bred the extinct Lycana 

 dispar. He used to tell how a Mr. Henderson transported larvie 

 of L. dispar from their native haunt in the fens to some water- 

 docks which grew in a small pond in his garden at Milton, near 

 Peterborough ; and I believe it was at this spot that Mr. Bond 

 last saw L. disjjar on the wing. 



It was one of bis sayings that a naturalist ought to have three 

 lives : seventy years to collect, seventy to study his collection, and 

 seventy to impart his knowledge to others. For the last dozen 

 years he gave his services as assistant editor (for Lepidoptera) of 

 this magazine, and none will be more ready than the editor and his 

 colleagues to acknowledge the value of the aid he rendered. But 

 our friend had no literary proclivities ; he was no great student 

 of books, and he seldom took up his pen when he could avoid it. 

 His published articles consist only of a few short notes, scattered 

 over the various Natural History journals of the last sixty years ; 

 the earliest appearing in ' Loudon's Magazine' in 1830, and the 

 last in 'The Zoologist' for June, 1889. The following list 

 includes all his notes on entomological subjects that I have been 

 able to discover : — 



1. Note on the occurrence of rare British Insects. Zool. 1843, p. 125. 



2. Note ou the cure of "grease" iu insects. Zool. 1843, p. 175. 



3. Note on the occurrence of Colias edusa and C. hyale in Northampton- 



shire. Zool. 1844, p. 397. 



4. Note ou the capture oi Polyoinmatus arion. Zool. 1845, p. 803. 



5. Flowers attractive to Moths. Zool. 1846, p. 1341. 



6. Occurrence of Sphinx convolvidi near Kingsbury, Middlesex. Zool. 



1846, p. 1510. 



7. Occurrence of the Locust at Kingsbury, Middlesex. Zool. 1840, 



p. 1518. 



8. Occurrence of the Locust at Duxford and Fulbourne. Zool. 1846, 



p 1521. 



