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was " upon occasion," and was " some few years since," there 

 is ample warrant for assigning the account to the brood of 15 

 years before. 



Prior to the discovery of the above record the earliest pub 

 lished account known was that referred to in my Bulletin 14 

 (newseries), of the Division of Entomology, p. 112, given in a 

 workentitled " New England's Memoriall," by Nathaniel More- 

 ton, printed at Cambridge, Mass., in 1669. The work cited I 

 was unable to get, but an account seen by me was a quotation 

 from it published in Barton's Medical and Physical Journal of 

 1804. The brood referred to by Moreton is undoubtedly the 

 same one referred to above, but the occurrence of 17 years pre 

 vious. Moreton, publishing of an event happening 36 years 

 after it occurred, evidently made a mistake of one year, the occur 

 rence not being 1633, as stated by him, but 1634. We have 

 records of this brood in New England from 1787 to 1886, and 

 another occurrence may be anticipated in 1903. The records, if 

 any were made of it after 1651 and prior to 1787, have not been 

 discovered. 



The Periodical Cicada was discussed further by Messrs. Qiiaint- 

 ance, Gill, Marlatt, Waite, and Kotinsky. Mr. Waite stated 

 that crows appeared not to damage the crops this year but 

 seemed to feed principally on the cicadas. Mr. Marlatt exhibited 

 photographs, taken in situ, of the cones in the woodshed above 

 referred to and of imagoes on trees, and pupal shells adhering to 

 the leaves, taken by Mr. Kotinsky and himself. 



Dr. Dyar showed a specimen of Acalla (jTeras) nigroline- 

 ana Robs, from the Asa Fitch collection, probably taken in New 

 York fifty years ago and labelled by Fitch kt Sarrothripa ? 

 novceboracina" Another specimen of this species has recently 

 been sent to the National Museum for name by Mr. H. D. Mer- 

 rick ; it was taken in New Brighton, Pa. 



Dr. Dyar also showed specimens of moths from the Bumelia 

 lanuginosa of Texas. Mr. Schwarz has discovered an interest 

 ing fauna on this tree during his trips to that region, and he 

 brought home from Victoria, Texas, three kinds of larvae, two 

 of which have been bred and prove to be Litodonta hydromcJi 

 Harvey and Euerythra phasma Harv. The third was a little 

 squarish, slug-shaped larva with soft skin and black lines that 

 must be that of Micza psammitis Zeller, as these moths were 

 captured in the same locality. The only specimen that reached 



