BROOD XII—SEPTENDECIM—1921. 55 
Mr. Britton reports? that he was not able to secure any records for 
Connecticut, although special effort was made to do so through 
correspondence. A personal examination of the area was, however, 
not made by the entomologist, and a clipping from the Hartford 
Courant of June 6 reports them present. 
In this year (1903), however, the first record of the periodical 
Cicada from Rhode Island was obtained, no brood having previously 
been reported from this State. The late James M. Southwick, 
curator of the Museum of Natural History, Roger Williams Park, 
reported under date of May 23 that a living specimen of the Cicada 
was brought to him that day taken near the southwest corner of 
Tiogue Reservoir, about a mile north of the New London turnpike, 
an unsettled region with plenty of woods. The specimen was secured 
by Mr. C. E. Ford, of Providence, who reported that the cicadas were 
making so much noise that he thought they must be frogs or toads 
having a late spring concert. Mr. Ford says, on the authority of his 
mother, that some were collected there thirty-four years before. This 
is a very interesting as well as unexpected record. 
The distribution by States and counties is as follows: 
ConnecticuT.—Hartford. 
Massacuusetrs.—Bristol, Franklin, Hampshire. 
Ruope Istanp.—Providence. 
Broop XII—Septendecum—1921. (Fig. 15.) 
The records on which this very doubtful new brood was based are 
given in Bulletin 18, new series, of this Bureau, pages 56, 57. The 
oldest record is that of Dr. Gideon B. Smith, who in his manuscript 
reports the Cicada as occurring in 1853 in Vinton County, Ohio, and 
Jo Daviess County, Ill. Neither one of these localities was con- 
firmed, either in 1870, 1887, or 1904. In the latter year the writer 
made special effort to have records secured if possible, but without 
result, Professor Forbes particularly making inquiries for Jo Daviess 
County, Il. 
The other two records published in Bulletin 18 for this brood are 
as follows: 
Mr. J. R. Burke, Milton, Cabell County, W. Va., writing under date of May 22, 1897, 
says: “‘The Cicada is not due here until 1904; its last visit was in 1887.” 
Mr. W.S. Herrick, Thurman, Allen County, Ind., writes under date of June 10, 1898, 
that ‘‘We had the 17-year locust in 1887, if I remember correctly.’’ This is also a 
doubtful record, and it is possible that he referred either to Brood X XII, occurring in 
1885, or Brood V, occurring in 1888. 
No report whatever was received from Mr. Burke. Mr. Herrick, 
under date of September 1, 1904, reported that he went through the 
neighborhood where the locusts appeared in 1887, and failed to see 
@ Report Conn. Exp. Sta. 1903, Part III, p. 214. 
