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The insects first appeared May 22(1. They were reported by Mr 

 C. W. Leng on the 23d at West New Brighton, and on the same 

 day by Mr Isaac West at Rossville near the other end of the 

 island. They appeared earlier or were more numerous in some 

 places than in others. At Great Kill they were very common in 

 a grove of sweet gums and could be seen flying and heard sing- 

 ing on May 26th. There were many more males than females at 

 that early date. 



Rockland county. This appears to be another Cicada stronghold. 

 The results of oviposition were observed on Iona island and 

 vicinity, the insects probably covering most of the Dunderberg 

 mountain to the south. Mr Ira Lawton reports the occurrence 

 of the Cicada at Nyack. They were recorded in swarms near 

 Suffern by Mr M. S. Daniels and reported by Mr Sylvester Bul- 

 son as occupying a territory about six miles square between 

 Haverstraw and Fort Montgomery. This brood was reported 

 by Dr J. A. Lintner in 1894 from Palisades on the Hudson and 

 was doubtless more or less prevalent throughout the county. 



Saratoga county. Rev. David C. Davies of Mechanicville trans- 

 mitted specimens of Cicadas collected by himself on the Bemis 

 Heights battlefield in the town of Stillwater. He states that 

 there were hundreds-of the pupal cases to be seen. He also sent 

 specimens taken on the farm of George Lape, a mile and a half 

 from Mechanicville and about a mile west of the Hudson river. 

 The trees in this locality were full of the insects and their sing- 

 ing could be heard for some distance. He also states he heard 

 of a colony on the east side of the Hudson and northeast of 

 Stillwater in a locality known as Chase's Hill, a place where 

 they appeared in 1894. The local press records the appearance 

 of great numbers of the Cicadas on the Guy Fitch farm about 

 three miles northwest of Mechanicville. Mr George B. Thomas 

 observed Cicadas about four and one-half miles south of Schuy- 

 lcrville and one-quarter of a mile west of the Hudson river. 

 There was a clump of bushes and trees about one rod wide and 

 twenty rods long which were nearly covered with the insects. 



Suffolk county. Mr William T. Davis, of New Brighton, states 

 that occasional Cicadas were found in localities on the western 

 end of Long Island. He adds that he was unable to find any 

 specimens whatever after three visits to the Half Way Hollow 

 Hills where the insects were so abundant in 1910, and he is 

 therefore led to conclude that this earlier appearance represents 

 an independent brood. Mr Charles Watkins of Wyandanch in- 



