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species is more protectively colored than some of the others, and it 

 often blends admirably with the gray bark of certain trees. In the 

 northern part of its range it appears to prefer dry or sandy situations, 

 but it is probably present in most parts of Virginia. 



The state records so far secured are as follows: Four Mile Run, 

 Alexandria County, September i, 1913, male (A. Wetmore), U. S. 

 Biological Survey; Virisco, Fairfax County, August 26, 1914, female 

 (C. R. Shoemaker) ; Tappahannock, August, 1916, male and three 

 females (Dr. Henry Fox) ; Dulinsville, Madison County, female, no 

 date, U. S. Nat. Museum; Nelson County, August 3, 1912, male; July 8, 

 1914, female, and August 9, 1914, male (Col. Wirt Robinson) ; Rich- 

 mond, August 24, 1907, female (B. M. Shepherd), U. S. Nat. Museum; 

 August 9, 1916, male, found dead at West Hampton, near Richmond; 

 Warwick County, August, 1911, male (H. H. Bailey), U. S. Nat. Mu- 

 seum; Fortress Monroe, August 10. 1916, male just emerged from pupa 

 skin; Lynnhaven, Princess Anne County, September 30, 1917, female 

 (A. H. Helme). 



From August 2 to 14, 1921, we found four males and one female 

 at Wingina, Nelson County, and about the trunks of some of the oaks, 

 both of the white and black oak group, the cast pupa shells were in 

 great abundance. One of the males mentioned above had just emerged 

 from the pupa skin on the morning of August 3, and we found it 

 hanging on a low limb of a tree. Later, after a severe rain and wind 

 storm of the early afternoon, we returned to look for the cicada. As 

 expected, it had climbed high up the tree. The writer climbed after it, 

 and when touched it squirted forth the liquid that recently matured 

 insects possess in abundance. The following day, in the afternoon, we 

 found a second pupa about to split up the back. We carried it home 

 and the insect emerged on the window screen in the museum. The 

 individuals of this species seem much more likely to emerge from the 

 pupae during the sunny part of the day than those of any other of our 

 native cicadas. Across the James River we heard auletes singing near 

 Spear's Mountain on August 5; near Willis's Mountain on August 9 

 and near the river on August 11 we found auletes, lyricen and sayi 

 lying dead. At West Hampton, near Richmond, on August 16, I heard 

 a few auletes singing. 



