Moon crab, Matuta victor 1, Cape mallow, Malva virgata 2, Mexican mallow, Phymosia umbellata 3 and ground beetle, Megacephala quadrisignata 4. Matute, Mauves, Megacephale. Handcoloured steel engraving by Pfitzer after an illustration by Adolph Fries from Felix-Edouard Guerin-Meneville's Dictionnaire Pittoresque d'Histoire Naturelle (Picturesque Dictionary of Natural History), Paris, 1834-39.

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