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piceous at the tip, excepting the middle longitudinal one, which is 

 piceous almost to the base"; the "legs orange, the, anterior femora 

 black beneath"; the "penis cover [uncus] is subfusiform, carinated 

 above, and with an interrupted groove exterior to the concave sulcus 

 present upon each side of the middle." The length is given as 21 

 millimeters, and the expanse as 50 millimeters. The type locality is 

 given as " east of Fort Colville in Washington Territory." In the 

 Uhler collection, U. S. National Museum there is a single female 

 labeled " Cicada arcolata Uhler, E. of Ft. Colville, N. W. Bound. 

 Surv." This is no doubt one of the types mentioned in the original 

 description. It expands 56 millimeters and the fore wings are 10 

 millimeters broad. The reflections are brassy. The fore legs are 

 now missing, but we have Uhler's statement in the original descrip- 

 tion, '■ legs orange the anterior femora black beneath.'" 



In the Bulletin of the U. S. Geological and Geographical Survey 

 of the Territories, 1874-1875, Vol. I, p. 343, Uhler has this to say of 

 the distribution of arcolata : " Collected in Cache Valley, Utah, by C. 

 Thomas, but previously known from San Mateo, Cal. (A. Agassiz) ; 

 from Ogden, Utah; from Virginia City, Nev. (J. Behrens) ; and from 

 Washington Territory." The Cache Valley and Ogden, Utah, speci- 

 mens belonged probably to what is described in this paper as pntnami 

 var. lutea, and the San Mateo, California, material no doubt belonged 

 to what we call Platypcdia similis. 



Specimens have been examined as follows : 



British Columbia. — North Bend, June 6, 1892, two females, U. S. 

 National Museum. Armstrong, July, 1914, male (W. Downes), col- 

 lection Dept. of Agriculture Province of Nova Scotia. Lardo, 

 Kootenay Lake, June 17, 1905, male (J. Chester Bradley), Cornell 

 University. 



Washington. — " Wash. T.," no date, female, collection U. S. 

 National Museum. Logic Creek, Yakima Co., June 16, 1913, three 

 males and two females (Clarence H. Kennedy)., Concerning these 

 specimens Mr. Kennedy writes as follows : " They were taken on 

 alder, sumac and balsam trees along Logic Creek. Their call is not 

 like the 17-year form, nor like the eastern harvest flies, but consists 

 of just a few clicks. Until I stumbled on to one clicking it had not 

 occurred to me that they were cicadas." One of the males from 

 Yakima Co. is figured and genitalia drawn. 



