28 - THE PERIODICAL CICADA 
that errors in referring old observations to a particular year are easily 
made. For this reason [ am unwilling to establish a new brood on 
the strength of this single testimony, and prefer to attach this lo- 
cality to this Brood IX until the contrary has been proven. Neither in 
the year 1871 nor 1875 did [ learn anything of the appearance of Cicadas 
in the locality mentioned by Mr. Miller. 
Broop X.— Tredecim—1875, 1888. 
In the year 1875, and at intervals of thirteen years thereafter, they will most likely 
occur in different parts of Texas. According to Dr. Smith they appeared in vast num- 
bers in some parts of Texas in 1349, though he was not able to get any particulars. 
1875.—The vear 1875 did not furnish any intormation regarding this 
brood, the existence of which is, therefore, solely based upon Dr. Smith’s 
statement. That Dr. Smith himself was unable to obtain definite local- 
ities for this brood might justly be regarded as a suspicious cireum- 
stance, and should the year 1888, in which the reappearance of the 
Cicadas may be looked for, also fail to confirm this brood, it would be 
best to strike it entirely from the list of the well-established broods.* 
Broop XI.—Septendectm—1876, 1293. 
Iv the year 1876, and at intervals of 17 years thereatter, they will, in all probabil- 
ity, appear in parts of North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Illinois, and Indiana. 
According to Dr. Smith they appeared from Raleigh, N. C., to near Petersburg, Va., 
in 1842 and 1859; in Rowan, Davie, Cabarras, and Iredell Counties, in the same State, 
in 1825, 1242, and 1859; in the valley of Virginia, as far as the Blue Ridge on the 
east, the Potomac River on the north, the Tennessee and North Carolina lines on the 
south, and for several counties west, in 1808, 1242, and 1859; in the south part of 
Saint Mary’s County, Maryland, dividing the county about midway east and west, in 
1825, 1842, and 1359; in Illinois, about Alton, in 1842 and 1859; and in Sullivan and 
Knox Counties, Indiana, in 1842 and 1859. 
1876.—Although this brood is thus well recorded in former years from 
many sections of the country, I received but few data in reference to it 
in 1876—a fact due to preoccupation with other matters. A correspond- 
ent at Lexington, Va., recorded their appearance at his place in the 
“The only information which might possibly be referred to this brood is contained 
in a letter we received July 1, 1575, from Dr. D. L. Phares, and which reads as foi- 
lows: 
“About the 10th of June [1875], coming up the Mississippi River from New Orleans, 
at Bayou Sara, I heard of a family of Cicadas in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, 
near the river and south of Bayou Sara. I requested a gentleman to get what history 
he could of them and send me specimens. I have received nothing from him except - 
the specimens I send herewith—all dwarfs, or perhaps a distinct variety.” 
It will be difficult to attach these specimens, either as precursors or belated spec- 
imens, to any one of the recorded broods, unless to this Brood X, of which they may 
possibly be the easternmost outpost. Still, as this isolated family of Cicadas has been 
observed east of the Mississippi, and therefore in a locality widely separated from 
Texas, nothing thatis certain cau be said regarding the connection of this swarm with 
Brood X. 
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