•36 Journal New York Entomological Society, tvoi. xxx. 



AN ANNOTATED LIST OF THE CICADAS OF VIR- 

 GINIA WITH DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES. 



By Wm. T. Davis, 



New Brighton, Staten Island, N. Y. 



The discovery of a new species of cicada in Virginia in 1921 has 

 seemed a sufficient reason for presenting this list, though the records 

 from the state are not very numerous. It is believed, however, that 

 all of the species occurring in the state have probably been included, 

 even though extended records of captures are lacking. A table for the 

 determination of the species is presented, based on the Key to the 

 Cicadas of the Southeastern United States, published in this Journal 

 in 1918. 



Through the kindness of Colonel Wirt Robinson, of West Point, 

 the writer has on several occasions had the opportunity of investi- 

 gating the cicadas and other insects to be found about Wingina, Nelson 

 County, Virginia, one hundred and four miles up the James River from 

 Richmond. Here the colonel spends his summers, not far from where 

 he was born, and here also he has a well-ordered museum containing 

 many mammals, birds and insects, as well as Indian implements, from 

 rthe vicinity and elsewhere. The woods containing wild turkeys, bun- 

 nies, rattlesnakes and their next of kin are close to the house, and one 

 may make observations of interest from the porch of the museum 

 itself. Our first excursion afield in 1921, among these interesting sur- 

 roundings, was on the afternoon of August 2, wlien we visited the 

 woods composed mostly of oaks and pines close to the museum build- 

 ing. Directly the writer heard a slow ::apc, zape, zapc, repeated about 

 ,40 to 45 times a minute, and continued for about one or two minutes. 

 "This was altogether a new song and suggested the performance of an 

 'Orthopterous insect, but as the colonel said he had heard it on other 

 ■occasions and supposed it a cicada, our interest in the matter was in- 

 tensified. If it were a cicada, it was probably a new one, as no other 

 species known to the writer had a song like the one to which we had 

 been listening. We had not long to wait, for soon a cicada about the 

 size of linnci was seen on a limb, slowly lifting and lowering its ab- 

 domen, and each time it did so it uttered a zape. If very near we 



