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The original scientific description of the species by Linné, based on 
material collected by Kalm, followed in 1758.4 Fabricius afterwards 
described the species in two or three of his works under the name 
Tettigonia septendecim, reviving one of the old generic names of Aris- 
totle for this class of insects, but Latreille, Lamarck, and subsequent 
authors retained Linné’s name. 
In his monographie work on the Cicadas of the world, 1788, Caspar 
Stoll gives a figure and a short description of Cicada septendecim. 
Some popular accounts of the species closely followed Linné’s 
description. Under the title; “Som observations on the Cicada of 
North America,’ Peter Collinson, esq., of London, England, gave a 
rather full account of the insect as then known, assigning fourteen or 
fifteen years as its life period, and published a plate illustrating the 
adult insect and a twig lacerated by the female.? Shortly thereafter 
appeared an article in Dodsley’s Annual Register (1767, p. 103), 
entitled, ‘‘Observations on Cicada or Locust of North America, which 
appears periodically once in sixteen or seventeen years, by Moses 
Bartram, 1766, communicated by the ingenious Peter Collinson.”’ 
References to the periodical Cicada in American literature began 
to be more abundant toward the end of the eighteenth century and 
in the begining of the nineteenth, Thomas Say, in 1817, referring 
to ‘numerous accounts of it in our public prints.’ Most of these, 
however, were unimportant notices and are now lost or not easily 
accessible, 
The most interesting contribution to the American literature of the 
Cicada of this period, comprising two papers with valuable editorial 
notes, is contained in the Barton Medical and Physical Journal of 1804, 
already cited. The first title reads: ‘‘Some particulars concerning 
the locust of North America. Written at Nazareth, in Pennsylvania, 
Aug. 27th, 1793. Communicated to the Editor, by the Reverend 
Mr. Charles Reichel, of Nazareth.’’ The ‘paper gives a number of 
dates of occurrence in Pennsylvania and some interesting notes on 
the habits of the Cicada—some errors in which are corrected in a note 
by the editor, who announces that he has ‘‘for several years, devoted 
a great deal of attention to the natural history of this insect”? and 
“designs to publish an extensive memoir on the subject,’ which, 
however, he seems never to have done. 
The second paper (pp./56-59) reads: “Additional Observations on 
the Cicada Septendecim. By the late Mr. John Bartram. From a 
MS. in the possession of the Editor.”’ The older paper indicated in 
this title I have not seen, but it is evidently included in an account 
of travels by Bartram in Pennsylvania and Canada, printed in Lon- 
don in 1751. Under the title quoted are notes on the appearance 
aSystema Nature, tenth-edition, 1758, p. 435. 
b Philos. Trans. 1764, vol. 54, pp. 65-69. 
