30 THE PERIODICAL CICADA. 
In New Jersey they were seen and heard at many points in Hudson, 
Bergen, Essex, and Middlesex Counties, and much less frequently in 
other parts of the State; but Mr. A. E. Newton, of Ancora, in Camden 
County, observed them near his place, and wrote me on June 25, 1877: 
‘‘Krom what I hear from other localities I judge that southern New 
Jersey generally, as well as northern, is subject to the visitation. They 
are doing little damage.” Thus Dr. Smith’s statement that they occur 
throughout the State seems to be confirmed. 
In Pennsylvania, according to a communication to the New York 
Weekly Sun from Milford, dated June 11, they appeared in immense 
numbers in Pike County, having been much less numerous im 1860.* 
No news came to me from the southern portion of the State, where this 
brood is evidently not nnmerous. 
I received no information concerning the localities above mentioned 
in Indiana and Michigan in 1877, but the records from Virginia are 
again numerous. Thus, Mr. William Hunter, Accokeek Mills, near Mount 
Vernon, Fairfax County, wrote, on June 4, 1577, that the Cicadas were 
thick near his mill and in his neighborhood, as they were also in 1860. 
“They are most plentiful on the hills, but some exist also in the valleys, 
and there are some localities where none are found, although surrounded 
on all sides by the infested neighborhoods.” Mrs. Annie Noyes Higgs 
briefly annonnced the appearance of the Cicadas, beginning May 27, near 
Glendower, in Albemarle County; Mr. T. G. Legatt, of Lynchburg (letter 
of June 8, 1877), records the Cicadas from the vicinity of Lynchburg 
and from the counties immediately adjoining the city ; and Mr. G. Un- 
derhill announced, in a card of June 4, 1877, their appearance at Fork 
Union, Fluvanna County. The brood is thus more widely distributed 
in Virginia than would appear from my record of 1868, and there is but 
little doubt that it extends to the southern limits of the State. 
From Maryland I have a record only from Charles County, by Mr. 
William Hunter, who stated that the Cicadas were much less numerous 
there than in the hilly portions of Fairfax County, Virginia. 
In the District of Columbia this brood was observed by many resi- 
dents of Washington in 1877, so that the District must be added to the 
above localities. 
Broop XIII.—Septendecim—1878, 1895. 
In the year 1878, and at intervals of seventeen years thereafter, they will, in all 
probability, appear along the center of the State of Illinois, all along the southern 
part of Iowa, and around Saint Joseph, in Buchanan County, in northern Missouri. 
The records are abundant of their appearance in 1844 and 1261 all along the sonth- 
ern border of Jowa, and in Mason, Fulton, McDonough, and Champaign Counties, in 
central Illinois. In 1861 they also occurred in Champaign County, central Ohio, and 
in Buchanan County, northwestern Missouri; and this brood doubtless occupies, more 
or less, the whole strip of country between these two points. Their appearance in 
1861 was associated with the first year of the rebellion, and Dr. Smith records this 
brood both in Illinois and Iowa in 1244. 
* Professor Leidy (Proc. Ac. Nat. Sc. Phil., 1877, p. 260) briefly records their appear- 
ance near Easton, Northampton County. 
