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generally let alone. Accordingly naturalists believe that 

 conspicuous color and markings often advertise some disa- 

 greeable quality or some special means of defense in the 

 animal bearing them and thus ward off its enemies. 



FIG. 234. Various moths and wasps, the moths having the appearance 

 of wasps, probably through mimicry, for the sake of the protection 

 afforded by their being mistaken for the stinging insects. (Natural 

 size; photograph by the author.) 



Mimicry. Certain other insects derive strange advan- 

 tage from the inedibleness of the warningly colored bad- 

 tasting kinds. There is, for example, another kind of 

 butterfly called the viceroy (fig. 233), which looks so much 

 like the monarch (although not nearly related to it), that 



