172 SECOND REPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



tion, we have drawn almost entirely upon the valuable compilation of 

 the Cicada broods occurring in the United States given by Prof. Riley in 

 his First Missouri Report, a work based upon so careful and extensive 

 research among published records as to have left room for but little 

 subsequent correction or addition. 



The 1865-1882 Brood in New York. 



There was not the opportunity of ascertaining from personal observa- 

 tion the range of this brood and the extent of its ravages in the summer 

 of 1882, in Central and Western New York, and, subsequently, efforts to 

 obtain information upon these points have met with hardly any success. 

 The counties in which it probably occurs are given upon page 170. 

 Its greatest abundance seems to have been in the vicinity of Canandai- 

 gua lake. In the Ontario County Times of June 28th, we find the fol- 

 lowing: 



The fruit growers of Vine Valley [Yates county], on the east side of 

 Canandaigua lake, are seriously disturbed by the recent appearance in 

 that locality of countless millions of "seventeen-year locusts." They 

 have come in such immense numbers as to cause widespread anxiety. 

 Our informant, who visited the infested district on Monday, reports 

 that the peach orchards and vineyards are suffering much from the 

 ravages of the locusts, and says the noise made by their movements is 

 so great that the human voice is almost drowned by it. They are feed- 

 ing upon the tender foliage of the trees and vines, and fears are enter- 

 tained that the growing fruit will be destroyed. The locusts have also 

 appeared on the west shore of the lake [in Ontario county], and are re- 

 ported to be doing considerable damage in peach and apple orchards. 



Mr. N. J. Milliken, editor of the Ontario County Times, communi- 

 cates the information that the locusts were particularly destructive in 

 the Middlesex valley, on the east shore of Canandaigua lake, Yates 

 county. They occurred in the Lake Keuka region, but no great amount 

 of harm was done by them. In the town of Terry, of the same county 

 the injury committed was comparatively slight, although " the noise made 

 by them was equal to the united drum-corps of a mighty army." 



In the last-named town, according to a note communicated by Prof. 

 Riley, the area occupied was about four square miles, and somewhat 

 less in the town of Middlesex. 



Mr. Thomas J. Powell, of Naples, N. Y., has informed me that on the 

 28th of June, of 1882, he was in Victor, Ontario county, and went north 

 four or five miles and found the locusts very abundant in the trees, 

 making a continual humming. So far as he could learn they had caused 

 but little damage. 



