Carrion beetle, Silpha 4-punctata 1, black snail beetle, Silpha atrata 2, Helophorus aquaticus 4, Thanatophilus rugosus 5, Nicrophorus germanicus 6, Thanatophilus sinuatus 7, Soronia grisea 8, Omosita depressa 9, Silpha laevigata 10, red-breasted carrion beetle, Oiceoptoma thoracicum 11, and Silpha obscura 12. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Thomas Martyn’s The English Entomologist, Exhibiting all the Coleopterous Insects found in England, Academy for Illustrating and Painting Natural History, London, 1792.

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