A lovely plate of Longhorn beetles from
Le rgne animal (
The Animal Kingdom) by
Georges Cuvier. (
Insectes also authored by
Pierre Latreille.) Illustrator was apparently
Emile Blanchard, engraver "LeBrun". Illustrated are:1-
Leptocera scripta Lin =
Glaucytes scripta =
Glaucytes interrupta (Olivier, 1792)2-
Acrocinus longimanus Lin.3-
Acanthocinus aedilis Fab.4-
Tetraopes varicornis Klug.I did the usual background clean-up and some light cropping and downsampling to produce this image from the
BHL original. This is the archetypal image of the harlequin beetle (
Acrocinus longimanus), and it was reproduced in other works later, often as a simple engraving. I had not seen the colored original before bumping into it on BHL.