Forest caterpillar hunter, Calosoma sycophanta 1, ground beetle, Elaphrus riparius 2, and violin beetle, Mormolyce phyllodes 3. 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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