REPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST IQI2 II! 
Professor Hudson adds that he has not been able to look for the 
insect since 1893, though he believes it to be a rather regular visitor. 
Apparently it was not abundant in that section last October. 
The flight of the cotton moth was closely followed in some local- 
ities by the appearance of numerous specimens of the lime tree 
winter moth, Erannis tiliaria Harr., a species mistaken by 
some for the cotton moth. This latter form was reported by Mr 
E. P. Van Duzee as unusually abundant at Buffalo on October 22d. 
It was numerous around the electric lights of Schenectady in the 
week of October roth, according to Richard Lohrmann. Numerous 
specimens were also observed about the same time in different 
sections of Albany. The same phenomenon, though perhaps not 
to such a marked extent, was noted by Henry Bird at Rye. 
Southern captures. In connection with the record given above 
relating to the large flights of the cotton moth, Alabama ar- 
gillacea Hubn., we deem it advisable to place on record the 
capture by Mr Henry Bird at Rye of the following three species 
of southern Noctuids: Autographa oxygramma Geyer, 
Aniomis erosa Hibn. and Anticarsia gemmatilis 
Hubn. Mr Bird states from observations covering a period of 
twenty-eight years, that he has not previously noted these insects in 
that locality. 
Periodical Cicada (Tibicen septendecim Linn.). The 
appearance of a large brood of this insect in rg11 aroused much 
interest, and as an indirect outcome, we received from Prof. G. A. 
Bailey June 11, 1912, a report that he had found several nymphs 
of this insect emerging from the ground on Major Wadsworth’s 
estate at Geneseo. Subsequently adults were forwarded and there 
can be no question as to the identity of the insect. Professor 
Bailey states that the few observed occurred within a narrow radius 
in a piece of second growth timber. There is a record of a colony 
of brood 12, the one which appeared in such large numbers in the 
Hudson valley in 1911, in the northern part of Pennsylvania and 
not so very distant from Geneseo. Should the insects noted above 
belong to this brood they must be considered as stragglers, other- 
wise it is necessary to associate them with brood three, no colony 
of which has been recorded nearer New York State than central- 
western Ohio and the northern portion of West Virginia. This 
seems to be a weak colony, since we have been unable to obtain any 
information respecting the earlier appearance of the insect in that 
section. 
