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sippi River, but they were as numerous on the opposite side of the 
river in Alexander County, IIl.”’ 
Mr. W. 8S. Campere, Pickens Station, Holmes County, Miss., writes 
under date of February 27, 1875, that the cicadas appeared in great 
numbers in April, 1873. These two records would indicate a brood 
originating doubtless by retardation of individuals of Brood XXIII. 
Subsequent to the publication of the records for this brood in Bul- 
letin No. 18 (new series) of this Bureau two additional localities have 
been reported—one in Louisiana and one in Mississippi. Mr. Ben H 
Brodnax, of Brodnax, Morehouse County, La., reported in 1899 that 
the locusts first appeared in small numbers on May 2 and lasted only 
about ten days. On inquiry he found that they were heard scattered 
about the south Arkansas line (Ashley County) and down to the 
lower line of Morehouse Parish. No specimens were collected. This 
report carries the record of this brood into the edge of Arkansas. 
Mr. George H. Kent, Meadville, Franklin County, Miss., in a letter 
of May 30, 1899, reports the appearance of a small brood in the western 
part of Franklin County between the latter part of April and May 15. 
Both of these records, as with the earlier ones, are probably from 
belated swarms of Brood XXIII, but may represent the start of a 
new brood. 
The State and county distribution of the brood is as follows: 
ARKANSAS.—Ashley. 
Inuinot1s.—Alexander. 
LovuistanA.—Morehouse. 
Mississipp1.—Franklin, Holmes. 
Missouri.—Scott. 
Broop XX V—Tredecim—1913. 
(No Cicada records of the 13-year race have been reported corre- 
sponding with this brood number.) 
Broop XXVI—Tredecim—1914. (Fig. 28.) 
This brood, No. X of Riley, was originally based on a very doubtful 
record given by Dr. Gideon B. Smith, to the effect that he was 
informed that the insect appeared in vast numbers in parts of Texas 
in 1849, but that he was unable to get any particulars. No confirma- 
tion of the occurrence of this brood in Texas has since been gained, 
and its existence is very doubtful. A more definite record was 
secured, however, by Professor Riley in 1875, from Dr. D. L. Phares. 
A gentleman reported to the latter that a swarm of cicadas was heard 
on the 10th of June in West Feliciana Parish, La., near the river and 
‘south of Bayou Sara. Some specimens were secured of this brood, 
all dwarfs. No other record seems to have been secured of this brood 
until the year 1901. In that year the occurrence of the brood in West 
Feliciana Parish was confirmed, locusts being reported by Mr. John 
