This plate is found in Icones insectorum and is of meloid species. This copy of 'Icones insectorum, praesertim Rossiae sibiriaequa peculiarum quae collegit et descriptionibus' (Images of insects especially those of the Russian Siberian species) was owned by British entomologist William Sharp Macleay.
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