June, 1920.] Davis: Xorth Americax Cicadas. 127 



Catalogue of the Hemiptera of America North of Mexico (1917), for 

 in 1776 Otto Frederich MuUer described in his Zoologise Donicje 

 Prodromus. p. 102, a Cicada pallcsccns from Denmark. 



In 1850 Francis Walker described Cicada calliope in List of the 

 Specimens of Homopterous Insects in the Collection of the British 

 Museum. Part I, p. 212. and gave tlie locality as "Warm Springs, 

 N. Carolina." ]\Ir. Franklin Sherman, of Raleigh, N. C, does not 

 know of any W'arm Springs in North Carolina, nor is the name in the 

 postal guide. It may be that the present Hot Springs in Madison 

 County was the locality.^ Walker gives among other characters, body 

 pale ferruginous; head as broad as the "fore-chest"; face slightly 

 convex, not at all prominent, adorned with a tawny stripe; crown 

 pitchy; eyes not prominent; "scutcheon [])ronotum] adorned with 

 two parallel pitchy stripes, its sides and the furrows also pitchy; 

 hind-scutcheon [hind margin of pronotum or collar] rather narrow, 

 above, much broader and rounded at the base of each fore-wing, 

 convex on the middle of each side; scutcheon of the middle-chest 

 [mesonotum] adorned with three broad black stripes; the side pair 

 slightly oI)Conical and oI)lique; hind liorder hardly excavated; ab- 

 domen obconical, very little longer than the chest, paler beneath, 

 adorned with three rows of pitchy spots, which are much longer and 

 more distinct on each side than in the middle; hind borders of the 

 segments pale tawny." The "wings colorless; fore border ferru- 

 ginous; veins ferruginous, black towards the tips; fore membranes 

 tawny ; flaps tinged with brown at the tips, buff at the base and along 

 the middle vein. Length of the body 6 lines [13.5 millimeters], of the 

 wings 17 lines," [expanse of wings 38 millimeters]. 



As this name was not preoccupied it has been used liy Mr. Van 

 Duzee in his catalogue for the small species covered by the descrip- 

 tion, extending from the Atlantic through the southern states north- 

 westward to Nebraska and Colorado. 



1 Since the above was written Mr. Nathan Banks has called my attention 

 to Edward Doubleday's " Communication on the Natural History of North 

 America." Entomological Magazine, October, 1838, where, under the heading 

 "Warm Springs, North Carolina, July 8, 1838," he says: "From Asheville I 

 walked most of the way to this place ; for in this mountainous country the 

 stage scarcely m^kes four miles an hour. The road runs mostly by the side 

 of the French Broad river, between high and wooded mountains." 



Madison Co., X. C, is therefore the type locality for calliope. 



