Title page with vignette of jewel beetle, Chrysochroa fulminans, and patch-winged diamond beetle, Curculio splendens. Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after an illustration by James Stewart 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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