Clubbed general soldierfly, Stratiomys chamaeleon 1, crane flower or bird of paradise, Strelitzia reginae 2, and insects, Halictophagus curtisii 3, Elenchus walkeri 4. Stratiome, Strelitizie, Stylops. Handcoloured steel engraving by August Dumenil from Felix-Edouard Guerin-Meneville's Dictionnaire Pittoresque d'Histoire Naturelle (Picturesque Dictionary of Natural History), Paris, 1834-39.

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