Great diving beetle, Dytiscus marginalis 24, Dytiscus semistriatus 25,26, Colymbetes striatus 27, and lesser silver water beetle, Hydrochara caraboides 28, unknown Dytiscus species 22,23. 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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