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JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY 



[Vol. 9 



I rejected all reports of occurrence after the first few days of July, 

 though there is a possibility that some of the later reports really 

 referred to belated specimens of the 17-year species. The fact that 

 not more than one-fourth of my letters of inquiry brought any response 

 indicated to me that the brood was very thin, and not a single card 



reported a swarm. Nearly all the reports mentioned that only a very 

 few specimens were seen or heard. In fact, if we were to rely upon 

 this season's record alone, we might properly regard all of the insects 

 appearing as stragglers of the 1914 brood. I doubt if they were 

 sufficiently numerous in any part of the state to reproduce. County 

 Agent Galehouse of ]Mahoning County reported that larvce came 



