THE PERIODICAL CICADA IN SOUTHEASTERN INDIANA. 
By Amos W. BurLerR, Brookville, Ind. 
In presenting what I have to say concerning the Periodical Cicada, I 
have tried not to follow in the footsteps of others. I have gathered 
much information that is new to me, and, coupled with this, the fact that 
these observations were made in a locality where this insect had not 
been previousiy studied shall, I trust, assure me your consideration. 
From our older inhabitants I learn the Cicada has heretofore ap- 
peared in Franklin County in the years 1834, 1851, and 1868. This 
year I have received reports of its occurrence. in the counties of Dear- 
born, Decatur, Rush, Union, Ripley, Franklin, Fayette, Wayne, and 
Delaware. The latter, however, is not one of the counties in the south- 
eastern part of the State. In Delaware County my informant reports 
it as “not abundant”; in Union County it was very common; and, I 
should think, was as numerous in Dearborn and Ripley Counties. In 
this county and in Fayette it was at no place as common as was ex- 
pected. We are entirely without the range of the thirteen-year race. 
The regularity of its appearance in certain localities is very interest- 
ing. Dr. George Sutton, of Aurora, writes me: “In 1851 the first I 
saw fully developed was on the 24th of May. In 1868 I first saw them 
on the 28th of May. This year I discovered them on the 29th of May, 
although there was evidence that a few had made their appearance a 
day or so before.” Its appearance in Franklin County this year was 
very irregular, The first representatives appeared in a few localities 
on May 28, and in such localities Cicadas were rather common two days 
later. In other places, less than half a mile from those just mentioned, 
no Cicadas appeared until June 4, and in other neighborhoods they were 
even alter in coming forth. 
Many pup were turned up by the plow in April and May. When 
these insects emerge from the ground it is with a rush, and a lively 
scramble ensues for each elevation near the point of their emergence. 
Trees, bushes, weeds, poles, stumps, fences—in short, everything upon 
which they can get above the level of their recent homes is ascended. 
A friend tells me that his hogs thought so much of the Cicadas as an 
article of food that they would not return to their accustomed feeding 
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