699 Marvels of the Universe 
Cinnabar caterpillar when  intro- 
duced to them for the first time. 
Pheasants which had not been 
educated in this way. treated the 
caterpillar far more unceremoniously 
until they, too, learned from the 
taste of the caterpillar itself that the 
black-and-yellow rings meant some- 
thing decidedly unpleasant. 
To the left of the Cinnabar is 
the female hornet, an insect with 
a pattern rather like that of the 
Cinnabar, but warning of a far 
more terrible defence—the most 
Photo by] [Harold Bastin. formidable sting possessed by any 
a ONKIERy European insect. It is interesting 
A lump of “‘chewed’’ wood, built up by the White Ants for the purpose to observe that the stingless male 
of growing a fungus which serves for food. 
hornet bears the same pattern 
as the female, and moves its body as though about to sting. It may be said to mimic its 
own female. To the right is a conspicuous Oriental moth, belonging to the Geometride, 
a vast group, of which the great majority are well concealed. The two other moths 
on the plate, on the contrary, be- 
long to specially-protected day- 
flying groups, of which the species, 
as a whole, bear conspicuous 
Warning Colours. That on the 
right, belonging to the Burnet 
group, is the Beautiful Erasmia, 
from China and North-East India, 
while the one on the left, belong- 
ing to the Agaristide, is the Spotted 
Eusemia, from Assam. <A closely- 
related African species is mimicked 
by a butterfly, called, in conse- 
quence, the Eusemia Mimic. It 
is far commoner for moths to 
mimic butterflies, so we have 
reason to believe that the Eusemia 
is specially distasteful. 
It is interesting to compare 
the Warning Colours of. vertebrate 
animals with those of insects. 
The venomous heloderm, shown 
above the salamander on the right, 
provides the one justification in 
Photo by) [Harold Bastin. fact for the popular dread of lizards. 
THE HANGING NEST OF A TERMITE COLONY. In order to determine how far the 
These arboreal nests are composed of finely chewed wood particles, 
pattern is warning and how far 
cemented by the juices of the Termites into a remarkably hard  sub- : *, 
Shans concealing, it would be necessary to 
