Beautiful milesia hover-fly, Caliprobola speciosa (Milesia speciosa) 1, foraminifera, Miliola species 2, yarrow, Achillaea millefolium 3, and perforate St John's-wort, Hypericum perforatum 4. Milesie, Miliele, Millefeuille, Millepertuis. Handcoloured steel engraving by du Casse 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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