Burying beetle, Nicrophorus humator 1, carrion beetles, Necrodes littoralis 2, Dendroxena quadrimaculata 3, carpet beetle, Anthrenus scrophulariae 4, and Hister quadrimaculatus var. reniformis 5. 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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