The IRSB is one of the more important Lycidae collections in the world, especially for containing many new world types, mainly the ones described by Jules Bourgeois and some of the Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville, as well as syntypes from Gorham and material compared to the Kirsch collection.Old-fashioned cabinets, containing hundreds of treasures not only of Lycidae, but many other paedomorphic lineages, including Lampyridae, Phengodidae and Cantharidae.Containing my excitement after finding out about the nearly 100 new world Lycidae types from the collection!