Lytta spanishfly, Lytta vesicatoria 2, Anthicus antherinus 3, narrownecked grain beetle, Omonadus floralis 4, Notoxus monoceros 5, black oil-beetle, Notoxus monoceros 6, var. or male? 7, unknown Meloe species 1. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Thomas Martyn’s The English Entomologist, Exhibiting all the Coleopterous Insects found in England, Academy for Illustrating and Painting Natural History, London, 1792.

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