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By June 20th, comparatively few specimens could be found, 
indeed only occasionally could its characteristic note be detected 
where only a few days previous the air was resonant with the 
monotonous music. The damage done was hardy perceptible, 
very few twigs falling or showing dead leaves during the summer 
quite in contrast with the condition noted in connection with the 
1885 brood in Ohio and Indiana where I had noted its presence 
last. That it is greatly on the decline in this region there seems 
no doubt, both from the small numbers of the present brood as 
compared with the earlier reports and from the imperceptible 
damage done in ovipositing. It may not be safe to turn prophet 
here, but unless signs fail we may expect that the occurrence of 
the 1916 will scarcely be noticeable to the average observer and 
wholly unknown to the general public. 
The Cicada as an article of food has more than once been 
considered by students and by others as well. Professor Reily 
has himself made certain experiments .as to its edibility, which 
while not promising for it an epicurean demand, seems to render 
altogether credible the various vagrant accounts of its use by 
Indians and primitive peoples. Fitch, in one of his early reports, 
1855, p. 752, says that it is credibly reported to be used by the 
Indians, being roasted in a hot oven, carefully browned by con- 
stant stirring and said to be quite palatable. Dr. Wm. Beau- 
champ has also advised me that it has been so used by the Onon- 
daga Indians, who take the insects as they emerge and after pre- 
paring them with a batter, cook them, and pronounce them very 
good indeed. 
It is very well known that many domestic animals devour 
them greedily, pigs being said to fatten on them, as is also the 
case with poultry. Cats and dogs likewise feed upon them in 
many cases. 
MORPHOLOGY OF THE ENTERON. 
While much attention has been given to the general subject 
of the food habits of the periodical Cicada and not a little discus- 
sion indulged pro and con it has in the main been directed to its 
