Black clock beetle, Pterostichus madidus 12, white-legged harp ground beetle, Paranchus albipes 13, blue plunderer, Lebia cyanocephala 14, Ophonus azureus 15, violet ground beetle, Carabus violaceus 16, bombadier beetle, Brachinus crepitans 17, Loricera pilicornis 18, Agonum marginatum 19, Carabus nitens 20, and others 21,22. 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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