Kinemacolor again demonstrates its ability to "hold the mirror up to Nature," reproducing in every shade and changing phase the gorgeous yet delicate coloring of the butterfly's wings. Rare specimens from tropic climes are revolved before the camera, and afterwards small sections of their wings are highly magnified, showing the arrangement of the iridescent flakes of color, so delicate that a rude breath will blow them away. Some of these insects have the imitative faculty, for instance, the Kailoma Imachus, whose wings look exactly like dead leaves when viewed from above, although they are beautifully colored on the under side.