Longhorns from Cuvier's Le regne animal

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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.