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CHAPTER IV. 
PHOSPHORESCENCE OF SCOLOPENDRA. 
It is well known that the centipedes belonging to 
the genus Scolopendra, and the class of Myriapoda, 
present us with at least two self-luminous species. 
In common with the earthworm, Scolopendra 
emit phosphoric light of a greater intensity at the 
time when the functions of reproduction are about 
to be performed. 
We must register here another anecdote :— 
On the 16th of August, 1814, about nine o’clock 
in the evening, some persons came to M. Audouin 
at Choissy-le-Roi, near Paris, where he was pass- 
ing his vacations, and called his attention to a 
curious fact. They had seen, they said, an im- 
mense number of “ earthworms” in a chicory-field 
not far distant, and these “ worms” shone with a 
hight that could only be compared to that of a 
piece of coal white-hot. One of these was brought 
in a flowerpot to M. Audouin. It was evidently 
a Lumbric; but, at the same time, this Lwmbric 
