Leaf beetles: Cyrtonota sexpustulata 1, Lachnaia hirta 2, Chlamys monstrosa 3, Doryphora tessellata 4, Erotylus histrio 5 and Spheniscus erotyloides 6. Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars from James Duncan’s Natural History of Beetles, in Sir William Jardine’s Naturalist’s Library, , Lizars, Edinburgh, 1835. James Duncan was a Scottish zoologist and entomologist 1804-1861.

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