THE TH0SPH01:ESCEi\CE OF THE SEA. 
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Whether or not the reader will be able to share with me the 
impressions left by those remarkable appearances which I have 
•witnessed and sought to describe, I cannot say, but it appears 
to me that no physiologist can fail to regard with satisfaction 
the circumstance that life performs the chief part in one of the 
most magnificent phenomena that the eye of man can contem- 
plate, and which has hitherto been usually attributed to the 
physico-chemical forces. 
LIST OF PHOSPHORESCENT ANIMALS REFERRED TO IN 
THE TEXT. 
No. 1, is from “Tocld’s Cyclopaedia” ; No. 2, from Yerhceghe’s article on 
“ Phosphorescence of the Sea on the Coast in the Neighbourhood of Ostend.” 
I. 
INSECT A. 
Lampyris : L. noctiluca, L. splendidula, L. italica, L. ignita, L. phosphorea, 
L. nitidula, L. lucicla, L. hemiptera, L. japonica. 
Elater : E. noctilucus, E. ignitus, E. phosphoreus, E. lampadion, E. retrospi- 
ciens, E. lucidulus, E. lucernula, E. speculator, E. janus, E. pyroplianus, 
E. huninosus, E. lucens, E. extinctus, E. cucujus, E. lucifer. 
Bupestris ocellata. 
Chiroscelis bifenestrata. 
Scarab reus phosphoricus. 
Pausus sphasrocerus. 
Fulgora : F. laternaria, F. serrate, F. pyrrhorhyncus, F. candellaria. 
Pyralis minor. 
Acheta gryllotalpa l 
II. 
MYRIAPOD A . 
Scolopendra electrica, S. phosphorea, S. morsitens. 
J ulus ? 
CRUSTACEA. 
Cancer fulgens, &c. Gammarus pulex. 
Carcinum opalinum. Cyclops brevicomis. 
Erythrocephalus macrophthahnus. Oniscus fulgens. 
Scyllarus (species doubtful). 
ANNELIDA. 
Nereis : N. phosphorans, N. noctiluca, N. cirrhigera, N. mucronata. 
Sjdlis fulgurans. Chcetopteras pergamentaceus. 
Photocharis cirrhigera. Lumbricus phosphoreus. 
Polynoe fulgurans. Planaria retusa. 
MOLLUSC A. 
Helix noctiluca. Phaliusia intestinalis. 
Pliolas clactylus. Salpa zonaria, S. tilesii. 
Pyroioma atlanticuni, P. giganteum. 
