32 CONTROLLED NATURAL SELECTION 



The Soldier Beetle (Telephones) is con- 

 spicuous in Nature, not entirely because it 

 is coloured black and red, but because it 

 chooses to spend its days on the surfaces of 

 white umbelliferous flowers, whence it can 

 be seen from afar and is at the mercy of any 

 bird who cares to feed upon it. 



The Black Beetle (Pimarcha Icevigata) is 

 coloured an intense, cold, blue-black. It is 

 a beetle which is at large during the day, 

 crawling slugglishly and clumsily about and 

 taking no pains to conceal itself : a very con- 

 spicuous object. If given to birds, they will 

 either not take them, or having picked at 

 them will spend many minutes scraping their 

 beaks, obviously in an endeavour to get rid 

 of a very unpleasant flavour ; they will seldom 

 swallow these beetles. The Soldier Beetle is 

 similarly treated. 



The Cinnabar Moth (Euchelia Jacobcece). 

 Coloured black and vivid red : it flies by day : 

 it is a slow flier and would fall an easy victim 

 to any enemy : it never takes any pains to 

 conceal itself, as other insects do when dis- 

 turbed : it does not bury itself in the grasses : 

 it does not seek safety in flight. 



The Large White Butterfly (P. brassicce). 

 A slow flier it can be seen at least 500 yards 



