Bamboo fungus, Phallus indusiatus 1, scarab dung beetles, Coprophanaeus ensifer 2 and Diabroctis mimas 3, and common wombat, Vombatus ursinus 4. Phallus, phanee, phascolome. 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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