342 Journal New York Entomological Society. lYoi. xxvii. 



mentioned therein, concerning which Miss Dewey reports as follows: 

 " Enclosed find a box containing a cicada. Last Wednesday (October 

 I 5> ^P)* while spending the day in the woods, I heard the notes of a 

 cicada and the enclosed is what I found. It was on a maple tree. 

 What kind of a cicada is it, and what is it doing out of the ground 

 this time of the year?" 



The cicada was a male Tibicina cassinii (Fisher), usually con- 

 sidered a variety of the seventeen-year cicada, and Miss Dewey may 

 well ask what it was doing out of ground as late as October 15. As is 

 well known Tibicina cassinii normally appears about the last week in 

 May, together with the larger Tibicina septendecim, or its thirteen- 

 year race, and by the middle of July the insects are all dead, so the 

 record of this remarkably delayed individual is of much interest. Dr. 

 Haseman reports that the insect was apparently freshly collected when 

 it reached his hands. 



Cicadas of the genus Tibicen are often heard late in the fall, and 

 this year several Tibicen sayi were singing at St. George, Staten 

 Island, as late as October 11, a very warm day. With the, seventeen- 

 year cicada and its variety, it is, however, usualy very different, and 

 as has been stated the insects are commonly all dead by mid-summer. 

 — Wm. T. Davis. 



Miscellaneous Collecting Notes for 1919. 1 — Butterfly collecting, in 

 the vicinity of New York City, has been, like last season, exceedingly 

 poor. Until nearly the end of March there was every promise of a 

 very early spring and hopes ran high for a good collecting year. This 

 was borne out by a very early butterfly record by A. B. Klots, viz., 

 a male specimen of Lyccenopsis pseudoargiolus f. vern. lucia, on 

 March 25. 



On the night of March 27, however, a very severe frost set in, the 

 cold spell lasting until April 2. Relatively few pseudargiolns were 

 noted after this. On April 25 we were treated to another severe frost, 

 this being the coldest April 25 in the history of the Weather Bureau, 

 the minimum temperature being 27 F. This cold weather only lasted 

 two days. It seems possible that these two cold spells have had some- 

 thing to do with the poor collecting. 



A trip to Greenwood Lake, N. J., was made on May 4 with Mr. E. 



1 Read before The New York Entomological Society, Oct. 7, 1919. 



