Leaf beetles: Alurnus marginatus 1, Eumolpus curpreus 2, Chrysolina cerealis 3, dead-nettle leaf beetle, Chrysolina fastuosa 4, Oedionychis cincta 5 and 22-spot ladybird Psyllobora vigintiduopunctata 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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