Fan-bellied leatherjacket, Monacanthus chinensis 1, Nile monitor, Varanus niloticus 2, and butterfly flower, Monsonia speciosa 3. Monacathe, Monitor, Monsonie. 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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