Cissites maculata 1, variegated oil beetle, Meloe variegatus 2, Spanish fly, Lytta vesicatoria 3, and Nuttall’s blister beetle, Lytta nuttalli 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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