text:  We found that though oil and alcohol quickly extinguished the light it became suddenly much brighter when fading by plunging the insect into hot water; but we did not find that it could be restored when it had once _entirely_ ceased by this or any other means as some French naturalists have affirmed; and as to its exploding a jar of hydrogen as others have written we disbelieve it because the temperature of the insect is far too low