Ground beetles, Poecilus cupreus 1,2,3, Carabus hortensis 4, Broscus cephalotes 11, and others. Carabus caerulescens, cupreus, gemmatus. 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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