Sternotomis pulchra 1, Tragocephala formosa 2, elderberry borer, Desmocerus palliatus 3, and Thysia wallichii 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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