June, iq^o.l TJaVIS: XoRTH AMERICAN CiCADAS. 127 



Catalogue of the Hemiptera of America North of Mexico (1917), for 

 in 1776 Otto Frederich Muller descril)ed in his ZoologicC Donicse 

 Prodromus, p. 102, a Cicada pallcsccns from Denmark. 



In 1850 Francis Walker descrihed Cicada calliope in List of the 

 Specimens of Homopterons Insects in the Collection of the British 

 Museum, Part I, p. 212, and gave the locality as "Warm Springs, 

 N. Carolina." Mr. Franklin Sherman, of Raleigh, N. C, does not 

 know of any Warm Springs in North Carolina, nor is the name in the 

 postal guide. It may be that the present Hot Springs in Madison 

 County was the locality.^ Walker gives among other characters, body 

 pale ferruginous ; head as broad as the " fore-chest " ; face slightly 

 convex, not at all prominent, adorned with a tawny stripe ; crown 

 pitchy; eyes not prominent; "scutcheon [pronotum] adorned with 

 two parallel pitchy stripes, its sides and the furrows also pitchy; 

 hind-scutcheon [hind margin of pronotum or collar] rather narrow 

 above, much broader and rounded at the base of each fore-wing, 

 convex on the middle of each side; scutcheon of the middle-chest 

 [mesonotum] adorned with three broad black stripes; the side pair 

 slightly obconical and oblique ; hind border hardly excavated ; ab- 

 domen obconical, very little longer than the chest, paler beneath, 

 adorned with three rows of pitchy spots, which are much longer and 

 more distinct on each side than in the middle; hind borders of the 

 segments pale tawny." The " wings colorless ; fore border ferru- 

 ginous; veins ferruginous, black towards the tips; fore membranes 

 tawny ; flaps tinged with brown at the tips, buff at the base and along 

 the middle vein. Length of the body 6 lines [13.5 millimeters], of the 

 wings 17 lines," [expanse of wings 38 millimeters]. 



As this name was not preoccupied it has been used by Mr. Van 

 Duzee in his catalogue for the small species covered by the descrip- 

 tion, extending from the Atlantic through the southern states north- 

 westward to Nebraska and Colorado. 



1 Since the above was written Mr. Nathan Banks has called my attention 

 to Edward Doubleday's " Communication on the Natural History of North 

 America," Entomological Magazine, October, 1838, where, under the heading 

 "Warm Springs, North Carolina, July 8, 1838," he says: "From Asheville I 

 walked most of the way to this place ; for in this mountainous country the 

 stage scarcely makes four miles an hour. The road runs mostly by the side 

 of the French Broad river, between high and wooded mountains." 



Madison Co., N. C, is therefore the type locality for calliope. 



