38 MEMOIE. OP T. J. BOLD, 



list of local Somoptera; in Yol. III., after lie was attacked with 

 paralysis, a list of local Aculeate Symenoptera ; and in Yol. lY. 

 he further enriched the Transactions by a list of local Semiptera- 

 Heteroptera. In addition to these catalogues he contributed 

 many papers of interest, and very often a review of the insect 

 life of the year. He was also a contributor to the "Zoologist," 

 " Entomologist," and " Entomologist's Magazine," and kept up 

 an extensive correspondence with the leading entomologists of 

 the day. 



In the early part of 1867 he was attacked with paralysis, by 

 which he lost the use of his legs, and was thus incapacitated for 

 active work; and now, he whose pursuits led him constantly into 

 the open country, became a prisoner in his own room. But 

 though days of infirmity had come upon him, yet they were not 

 days in which there was no pleasure in them. Eor the pursuits 

 which had been the delight of his life were now its solace in his 

 forced imprisonment. Unable to ramble about in his accustomed 

 haunts he never allowed himself to be idle. Fortunately his 

 mental powers were unimpaired, and he still retained the use of 

 his hands, and thus was enabled to work at his collections and 

 to examine specimens which were continually sent to him by his 

 numerous correspondents and friends. 



The same method and order which characterized him in health 

 still marked him in his retirement, and by a careful apportion- 

 ment of his time he was able to attend to his collections, to keep 

 up his correspondence, and by his reading to keep himself abreast 

 of the entomological science of the day. It was during this 

 period that he brought out the revised Catalogue of the Coleop- 

 tera. During this time he also arranged the collections of British 

 Coleoptera, Symenoptera, and Lepidoptera in the Museum of the 

 Natural History Society. Eor twenty-five years he kept a regu- 

 lar Journal, in which is noted his observations on the weather, 

 vegetation, insect life, etc. But this he ceased to keep when his 

 afiliction came upon him. 



Amongst his correspondents the following names may be men- 

 tioned, which shew the estimation in which he was held by his 

 brother entomologists, Stevens, Newman, "Walcott, Wollaston, 



