On the right, creeping down the bank, is a common Glowworm, the wingless 

 female of a beetle (Lampyris noctiluca) which is seen descending from the 

 corner opposite. Beneath, crawls a luminous or electric Centipede (Scolopendra 

 ehctrica) ; and near, in the centre of the foreground, is one of our native Click 

 Beetles (Elateridai), not (as represented by mistake) a luminous insect, but 

 closely allied to, and much resembling, the Fire-fly (Elater noctilucus) of the 

 West Indies and South America. 



STARS OF THE EARTH. 



HE attention of philosophers was in very 

 early ages directed to various phenomena 

 resulting from the properties of light, and, 

 amongst others, the remarkable phosphoric 

 appearances of certain animal and vegetable 

 bodies. Ancient writers allude in general terms to the existence 

 of luminous insects, of which the species most early known is 

 supposed to be the Linria?an Lampyrides, or flying glowworms, 



