MEMOIR OF DBDRY. 



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Lot 95. ScarabseusGoliathus,var. 

 1 00. Cerambyx Gigas, and 2 ) 

 others j 



1 04. Thirteen species of the ) 



Bupestris genus . j 



1 05. Elater flabellicornis, vi- 



rens, and 8 others 



112. Cetoniahamata,nitens, } 

 grandis,Scarabaeusfes- > 

 tivus, and 12 others ) 



123. A variety of small in- 

 sects of the Mordella, 

 Forficula, and other 

 genera, among which 

 are Diopsis Ichneu- 

 monia, and also a spe- 

 cies of Paussus 



201. Mutillabimaculata,tho- ) 

 racica, Scolia signata, > 

 and 24 others . ) 



269. Sphextropica, frontalis, ) 

 Africana, &c. j 



I 12 1 6 Humphrey 

 3 480 Haworth 



13 8 



10 



Macleay 

 6 Latham 



16 17 Macleay 



37 700 Ditto 



27 



5 Kirby 



6 Ditto. 



In the year 1787 Drury lost his wife, hy whom 

 he had seventeen children; all of these, however, 

 died young, excepting three who survived him. In 

 the spring of 1789 he retired from trade, relinquish- 

 ing his share of the business to his son, who paid 

 him a sum of money in hand, and allowed him an 

 annuity for the rest of his life, 



He then took a house at Broxbourne, in Hertford- 

 shire, at which he went to reside, but occasionally 

 came to London to visit his son, remaining for a 

 few weeks at a time. While at Broxbourne he con- 

 tinued to collect insects as formerly, and spent much 

 of the leisure time he now enjoyed in arranging 

 and improving his cabinet. He became very fond 



