A Captain in the army. Recorded in various volumes of the FBI series as having collected Coleoptera in that country. The species Paussus boysi Westwood (1845) and Rhysodes boysi Arrow (1901) are named after him. Smith (1986) notes that Boys sent insects to Hope in 1842, now in the HDO, together with a letter. The HDO also has a cabinet of insects other than Coleoptera purchased by Westwood in 1848, and paintings and transfers of Indian insects and the manuscript of his paper on Mutilla read to the ESL, June 1843. FES 1842-43. (MD 10/01)