170 SECOND REPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Number of Broods in the United States. 

 Dr. Fitch, in his First Annual Report on the Insects of N'eiu York, 

 recorded nine broods in different parts of the United States. Prof, 

 Riley, as the result of a more thorough and extended search of old 

 records, gives, in his First Report on the Insects of Missouri, twenty- 

 two broods, one of which he has subsequently rejected, from its failure 

 to appear at its expected time and place, and the doubtful evidence 

 upon which its former appearance (in 1870) rested. Of these twenty- 

 one broods, seven are of the thirteen-year race. 



Broods in the State of New York. 



Of the above, five ocdur within the State of New York, viz.: 



1. Commencing with the one, the appearance of which in Ontario 

 county in June of 1882, as has been stated; former appearances are re- 

 corded in 1797, 1814, 1831, 1848 and 1865. Its next return will be in 

 1899. Its probable distribution is in portions of Wyoming, Monroe, 

 Livingston, Ontario, Yates, Seneca, Cayuga and Onondaga counties. 



2. To appear in 1885, in Brooklyn and the western part of Long 

 Island, in the vicinity of Rochester, N. Y., and orobably to a lesser ex- 

 tent in intermediate portions of the State.* 



The range of this brood is stated to be from South-Eastern Massachu- 

 setts (across Rhode Island and Connecticut) to Long Island, New Jer- 

 sey, Pennsylvania, extending up into Western New York, southward 

 into Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana and 

 Kentucky. Its former records are, 1715, 1732, 1749, 1766, 1783, t8oo, 

 181 7, 1834, 185 1 and 1868. The next appearance will be in 1902. 



3. A brood to appear in 1889, on Long Island. Former visits have 

 been in 1838, 1855 and 1872. It will also return in the year 1906. 



This is of very extensive range, commencing in Massachusetts and 

 crossing Long Island, is continued in New Jersey, South-Eastern Penn- 

 sylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, down the Ohio 

 river and " the valley of the Mississippi river, probably to its mouth, 

 and up its tributaries into the Indian Territory." 



4. A brood in 1894, in the valley of the Hudson river. Dr. Fitch 

 gives its northern extension as in the vicinity of Fort Miller, n.ear to 

 where the river has its westward trend. It extends southward along the 

 river to its mouth, embracing, in its lateral extensions, New Haven, in 

 Connecticut, Northern New Jersey and North-Eastern Pennsylvania. 



*In the Neiv York Sunday Press of June 20, 1885, the following notice appears : " Locusts 

 have made their appearance by millions, in the middle of Long Island and on Staten 

 Island. In Prospect Park, Brooklyn, the nuisance is said to be intolerable. In many 

 places the insects cover the roadway and are crushed under wheels in countless numbers." 



