382 CONTROLLED NATURAL SELECTION 
The Soldier Beetle (Telephorus) 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 levigata) 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 Jacobee). 
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. brassice@). 
A slow flier—it can be seen at least 500 yards 
