Leaf beetles: Smaragdina limbata 1, Clytra laeviuscula 2, Cryptocephalus beetles 3,4, Crioceris solani 5 and Chrysomela campestris 6. Handcoloured stipple engraving by Pancrace Bessa from Charles Malo’s Les Insectes, Louis Janet, Paris, 1820.

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