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Long Island the pests are so thick that drivers of automobiles 

 yesterday had to put up their wind shields to drive by the hard- 

 wood and fruit trees, where the locusts congregate." 



From personal observation it can be stated that the cicadas 

 occurred in great numbers north of Massapequa railroad station, 

 and also to the east of that place. On July i8, 1919, Mr. 

 Edward J. Burns and I found many pupae skins and dead cicadas 

 in the region mentioned. The ends of the branches of many of 

 the oaks had broken where the cicadas had laid their eggs, giving 

 the woods in places a brown appearance. The perennial herb, 

 Baptisia tinctorial grows commonly north of Massapequa, and 

 it had also been extensively used by the cicadas in their egg-lay- 

 ing operations. 



Mr. George P. Engelhardt has reported that in a visit to 

 Baldwin, about five miles to the west of Massapequa, he found 

 in the latter port of June but very few seventeen-year cicadas, 

 the main body having evidently emerged to the eastward of that 

 place. 



From these facts it will be seen that Tibicen septendecim was 

 observed on Long Island in 1919 at about the same places where 

 it occurred in 1902. 



In his letter already referred to Dr. Frank Overton makes 

 this interesting statement: "Last year (1918) the seventeen- 

 year cicadas appeared in considerable numbers in the woods 

 along the road between Manorville and Wading River. I col- 

 lected several about one mile north of the Middle Country Road. 

 This was on a Sunday, June 16, 191 8. This was the only ap- 

 pearance that I noticed in 191 8. There did not seem to be any 

 in that locality in 1919." Seventeen-year cicadas of 1918 can be 

 referred to brood number IX, which is mostly confined to parts 

 of Virginia, West Virginia and North Carolina. The cicadas 

 occurred in great numbers at White Sulphur Springs, West 

 Virginia, in 191 8, judging from the egg-scars in the branches of 

 trees and bushes as observed by the writer.^ 



1 According to reports received, they were also notably abundant about 

 Pulaski, in Southwest Virginia. — J. R. T. B. 



