Blue-spotted or golden-spotted tiger beetle, Cicindela aurulenta 1, saber-toothed ground beetle, Anthia decemguttata 2, huge violet ground beetle, Carabus scabrosus tauricus 3, and ground beete, Carabus hispanus 4. 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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