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County, the latter adding that he caught about a dozen precursors in 
1871. Mr. J. B. Miller, residing at Anna, in the same county, wrote 
(May 17, 1872), ‘ they are here in hosts, according to prediction,” and 
that he can trace the brood back to 1846. Finally, Mr. J. R. Muhleman 
(June 20, 1872) stated that a few stragglers of this brood extend as far 
north as Woodburn, in Macoupin County. 
In Missouri the existence of this brood was fully established in 1872, 
though the exact limits of its range still remain to be defined. From 
Saint Louis County, Mr. H. J. Schulte, of Carondelet (letter June 10, 
1872), reported them as being generally distributed throughout. his sec- 
tion of the county, and on June 7 [ noticed quite a number of Cicadas 
near Eureka and a few around Kirkwood. The only other place in that 
State from which this brood was reported is Rocheport, in the extreme 
southwestern corner of Boone County. Mr. M. P. Lientz, writing from 
that place on June 3, 1872, says that the Cicadas were thick enough there 
to make the woods noisy. Boone County is considerably west of Saint 
Louis County, but nearly in the same latitude. 
Nothing was heard from Kansas to confirm or contradict Dr. Smith’s 
statement regarding the occurrence of this brood in Phillips County. 
From Tennessee the brood was reported in Madison County. The 
Jackson Whig and Tribune of May 25, stated that ‘they are doing their 
level best to make the woods north of the town vocal with their million 
voices ;” and in the extreme southwestern corner, as Mr. W. Phillips, 
of the University of Mississippi, wrote me on January 22, 1873, they 
were below and about Memphis in their usual quantities. 
In Mississippi they were, according to Mr. J. P. Stelle, swarming at 
Hazlehurst, Copiah County. According to Dr. George Little (as com- 
municated to me by Mr. W. Phillips), they appeared at Oxford, Miss., 
in 1859 as well as 1872. 
That this brood occurs in Arkansas seems to be proved by a gommu- 
nication of Mr. J. W. Howard, of Flat Bayou, to the Phillips Southern 
Farmer, October, 1872, stating that 1872 was the locust year in his sec- 
tion of the country. 
Neither from Louisiana nor from Georgia did I receive any informa- 
tion in 1872 concerning this brood. 
The existence of this brood has thus been verified in the parts of Iili- 
nois, Missouri, Tennessee, and Mississippi indicated above, and Arkan- 
sas has to be added thereto, while the other localities (Kansas, Georgia, 
and perhaps also Louisiana) require further verification this year (1885). 
BBROOD VIII.—Sepiendecim—1872, 1889. 
In the year 1872, being the same year as the preceding, and at intervals of seven- 
teen years thereafter, they will, in all probability, appear in the southeastern part of 
Massachusetts; across Long Island, along the Atlantic coast to Chesapeake Bay, and 
up the Susquehanna at least as far as to Carlisle in Pennsylvania; also in Kentucky, 
at Kanawha in West Virginia, and Gallipolis, Ohio, on the Ohio River. This is the 
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