20 OCTOBER 1928, Page 22

PHOSPHORUS

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] notice in your issue of October 6th a query re phos-, phorescent appearances in grass at night time. I have noticed the same phenomena twice, once last winter during a damp night, and once a few weeks ago on a sharp clear night. Both were on a country road. By the flicker of a match the first appeared to be a very small marsh-worm, and lay quite still ; but in the second case it was a very thin millipede about two inches long, which ran quite fast and actually left a glow of phosphorus on a piece of straw

Which lay in its path. The light tvas.quite.brilliant in each

case, and came from the entire length of the creature.—

E.7 North,gate_Mrcei, Bury St Edmunds - - ' -