Lot 3 Phalæna Aprilina, Graminis, and 22 others 26 £7 12 0 G. Humphrey. 8 Sphinx Convolvuli, and 8 others 9 4 1 0 Donovan. 46 Papilio Priamus 1 4 14 6 General Davies. 64 ---- Claviger, and 5 others 6 7 10 0 MacLeay. 69 A variety of curious Spiders, chiefly from Georgia 110 4 4 0 Donovan. 90 Papilio Iris, Edusa, Hyale, and various 4 10 0 Humphrey. 94 Sixteen curious Curculiones 16 11 11 0 Ditto. 95 Scarabæus Goliathus, var. 1 12 1 6 Ditto. 100 Cerambyx Gigas, and 2 others 3 4 8 0 Haworth. 104 Thirteen Species of the Buprestis Genus 13 8 0 0 MacLeay. 105 Elater Flabellicornis, virens, and 8 others 10 4 6 0 Latham. 112 Cetonia hamata, nitens, grandis, Scarabæus festivus, and 12 others 16 17 0 0 MacLeay. 123 A variety of small Insects of the Mordella, Forficula, and other Genera, among which are Diopsis ichneumonea (and also a species ofPaussus) 31 7 0 0 Ditto. 201 Mutilla bimaculata, thoracica, Scolia signata, and 24 others 27 3 5 0 Kirby. 269 Sphex tropica, frontalis, Africana, &c. 128 6 6 0 Ditto. {x}The total amount obtained for the Insects was £614. 8_s._ 6_d._; and about £300. more for the Cabinets, Books, &c. with the Copper-plates of the Illustrations. Of the estimation in which the works and collections of Drury were held by Linnæus, Fabricius, &c. the constant references (especially by the latter) made to them, will sufficiently prove. The former dedicated a fine species of Cimex to Drury, figured in the first volume of these Illustrations, pl. 42. f. 1. 5.; whilst the latter described an American species of Stenocorus from Drury's collection, under the name of St. Drurii (Ent. Syst. 1. 2. p. 302.) and also a Danish Tinea under the name of T. Drurella. The Rev. W. Kirby also in his Monograph upon the English Bees, has named a rare species belonging to the modern genus Eucera, Apis Drurella, with the remark--"In honorem D. Drury, operis entomologici splendidissimi auctoris, cujus museum insectorum rarissimorum undique conquisitorum gazophylacium ditissimum, hanc apem ab illo acceptam nominavi." (Mon. Ap. Angl. 2. p. 286.) That Drury was in correspondence with these "Heroes Scientiæ" will therefore be unquestioned; and the following letter from the younger Linnæus, communicated to me by the relatives of the former is interesting not only on this account, but for the curious statement relative to the Oestrus humanus then recently discovered in South America. Celeberrimo Viro D. Drury. S. pl. d. Carolus a Linne.