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tance above Bound Brook and down the river toward Perth Aniboy, 

 but far from equally. They would occur in great numbers in certain 

 patches of woods, skip others completely, and rea[)pear a mile or more 

 farther along in immense numbers, leaving then another blank patch 

 of greater or less extent. The western and southwestern portion of 

 Middlesex and all of Mercer County were free from the insects. A 

 small region in the northern part of Monmouth County was invaded, 

 and a very few points in Ocean County reported the presence of the 

 insect. In fact, it was only along the course of Toms Kiver and 

 its upper branches that I had any reports from Ocean County at all. 

 In Burlington County they were reported from a single point only, 

 and that near the center of the county. In Camden County they 

 appeared along the line of the Atlantic City roads about fifteen or 

 more miles from Camden, and extended for a short distance on each 

 side of the railroad to Hammonton. There a considerable patch of 

 country was skipped and then they reappeared, not again becoming 

 abundant, however, untd the Egg Harbor City region was reached. 

 From Egg Harbor City a streak extended southward and a small spur 

 also north of that point, and Atlantic County was crossed to the 

 Tuckahoe Kiver. Along the Tuckahoe Kiver through the central 

 portion of its course they were extremely abundant, and frora this 

 river they extended southward for some distance into Cai)e INIay 

 County, becoming perhaps most numerous near Woodbine, where there 

 is a large settlement of Hebrews. This settlement suffered perhaps 

 most of any other in the State from the injuries caused by the 

 insects in ovipositing. They had set out young shade trees, 

 as well as orchard trees, in very great abundance. Soft maples, three 

 and four years old, lined out the streets and all the roads, while to 

 every allotment of land there were a certain number of fruit trees 

 of all descriptions. This seems to have been just exactly what 

 these insects were looking for, and they simply wrought havoc with 

 everything, because they oviposited not only in all the branches, 

 but in the trunks clear down to the base and on all sides of the 

 tree trunks, so that there was in some cases scarcely a clear space 

 of an inch square to be found anywhere on the tree. I have in my 

 laboratory now several trees in which there nuist be several hundred 

 egg slits made by the Cicadas. This is the only ])ortion of the State 

 in which a real permanent injury was caused by the insects; because 

 here many young trees were killed and others were set back so far that 

 they were rendered practically useless for some time to come. Cum- 

 berland County reported the insects from several i)()iiits along the 

 Maurice River, extending from Frankliuville almost to Delaware Bay, 

 and at Frankliuville entering Gloucester County for some little dis- 

 tance. At this point also there was the only extension into Salem 

 County that was reported, and at Bridgeton, on the Cohansey Creek, 

 there was a small area of a few miles in extent in which the insects 



