The Lampyris is not a worm at all, not even in general appearance.

Science employs the same term: it calls it the lantern-bearer, Lampyris noctiluca, Lin.

Let us leave this ill-chosen denomination and ask ourselves what the Lampyris feeds upon.

Much earlier, far back in the centuries, the Lampyris and, apparently, others knew it as well.

We know how common the glow-worm* (* Lampyris italica, L.

And this apparatus the Lampyris possesses.

The Lampyris doles out his tweaks.

There are eighteen species of Lampyris or glow-worm, according to Linneus, some of which are found in almost every part of the world.