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who, in the last-named species more particularly, deposited their 
eggs freely upon them, apparently under the impression that the 
malodorous blossom, with its hairy clothing, was the skin of a 
defunct quadruped. Mr. Saville-Kent had further observed of 
the plants grown in his conservatory, that the large blow-flies 
would insert their proboscis between the central rigid anther- 
styles, and be held prisoners in such a position for many hours. 
He anticipated that in its native country the species and its allies 
would be found to be to a large extent insectivorous. A group 
of scarlet and white spotted fungi from the Shirley Woods, for 
which the exhibitor acknowledged his indebtedness to Dr. Franklin 
Parsons for the original specimens photographed, concluded the 
botanical series. Among the various forms of butterflies and 
moths projected on the screen, that of our familiar red admiral, 
Vanessa atalanta, complacently resting on a cabbage leaf, was 
more particularly admired. 
Mr. Saville-Kent, as is well known, has of late years devoted 
much attention to the study of lizards, and possesses an extensive 
and interesting collection of living types. Of several of these 
Mr. Saville-Kent had secured life-like colour photographs. These 
included more especially the Australian stump-tailed lizard, the 
Algerian and Egyptian skinks, and the so-called teguexin of 
Central America, which Mr. Saville-Kent has recently demon- 
strated is in the habit of running bipedally, after the manner of 
a bird, in common with other lizard types that have formed the 
subject of his special investigation. 
Fish were found to lend themselves very appropriately to 
three-colour photographic delineation. A group of gold and 
silver carp and a common red-spotted plaice were particularly 
realistic, as also that of a John Dory with extended jaws in the 
act of engulfing a smaller rock fish. A spring idyll—such as 
may be often re-enacted in the woods and hedgerows around us 
when the spring is fairly advanced—constituted the subject of a 
more ambitiously artistic colour picture. It consisted of a bank 
of primroses and bluebells, with a couple of brimstone butterflies 
toying over them, while ensconced in a sheltering corner of fern 
leaves a young leveret was inquisitively watching the sportive 
butterflies. This lantern slide more particularly demonstrated 
the latent possibilities of this three-colour photographic process 
as an aid towards the composition of colour pictures, and as such 
recommends itself to the attention of both the oil and water 
colour artist. 
Bird life constituted the subject of the concluding series of 
colour slides shown by Mr. Saville-Kent. The so-called Austra- 
lian wrens, belonging to the genus Malurus, were particularly 
notable for their bright coloration, and coincidently formed 
appropriate subjects for colour reproduction. One species— 
