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some of the segments ; spiracles wholly whitish ; head concave on 

 top, brown, marked irregularly with darker brown, a row of three 

 orange yellow spots on each side of the face and an additional one on 

 each side of the head ; posterior part of head where it joins the body 

 velvet black, which color is interrupted above; length, 21 mm. 

 Found two May 8, 1887, near Los Angeles, Cal., living singly in a 

 nest of leaves on Hosackia glabra. One pupated May 14th and the 

 butterfly issued June 4th. 



NOTE ON THE SEVENTEEN-YEAR CICADA. 



By Benjamin Lander. 



Having had exceptional opportunities in 1894 to study the habits 

 of the seventeen-year Cicada, I sent from time to time the results of 

 my observations to the late Professor Lintner, then the State Entomol- 

 ogist at Albany, who requested me to watch for "left overs," as he 

 termed them — belated ones likely to appear in 1895 and 1896. In 

 both those years I noticed a few in the woods back of Nyack. Last 

 year I was not so fortunate, but I heard of two specimens that were 

 seen in the pupa state. 



It will no doubt be interesting to those who have specially studied 

 the Cicada to learn that during the last summer there were great num- 

 bers seen and heard in the woods and orchards about Nyack ; even in 

 the village streets. So many, in fact, that in .some places in the 

 woods their peculiar note could be heard almost continuously. On 

 one tree back of my house I counted nine pupa-cases. 



It is not at all likely that these were " left overs " from the great 

 Hudson River Valley brood of 1894. It seems altogether likely that 

 they were a part of brood XVII, of 1898, which are recorded as hav- 

 ing appeared in the counties of Westchester and Richmond of this 

 state, and in Essex County, New Jersey. If so, this is probably the 

 first note of their occurrence in Rockland County, N. Y. 



On June loth, while visiting a piece of woods where the Cicadas 

 appeared in vast numbers in 1894, I could hear them in every direc- 

 tion, but what was of far more interest to me, I saw the ruins of four 



