Tortoise beetles: Omocerus bicornis 1, Cassida scalaris 2, Cassida micans 3, Cassida echinata 4, Cassida perforata 5, and Cassida luctuosa 6. 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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