Diving beetle, Dytiscus dimidiatus 1, common whirligig beetle, Gyrinus natator 2, Cyclous vittatus 3, and great silver water beetle, Hydrophilus piceus 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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