White-marked spider beetle, Ptinus fur 13,4, P. imperialis 2, P. pectinicornis 5, tumbling flower beetle, Mordella aculeata 3, Mordellochroa abdominalis 4, frontalis 7, paradoxa 9,10, whirligig beetle, Gyrinus natator 1, glow worm, Lampyris noctiluca 1,2, cardinal beetle, Pyrochroa species 3. 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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