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been recorded from New York State, but was known to occur 

 more to the south and southwest. 



Brood No. 2 (1911) was in its usual abundance on Staten 

 Island and in the valley of the Hudson, but on Long Island very 

 few of the cicadas were found. I spent part of May 31 in the 

 Half Way Hollow Hills looking for cicadas where they had been 

 so common the year before, but without success. Mr. Watkins 

 of Wyandanch said he had seen two seventeen-year cicadas near 

 that village several days previous to my visit, and later Mr. 

 Frederick M. Schott heard several near the same place. But one 

 or two individuals were reported from the western end of the 

 Island during 191 1. 



On May 31, 191 3, at Deep Pond near Wading River on the 

 north side of the Island, a single seventeen-year cicada was heard 

 singing a number of times in a tall oak. On May 31, 1914, I 

 collected at Deep Pond a number of pupa skins, two cicadas 

 and heard a number of others singing. Later we heard 

 one singing about a mile to the northward and found three 

 of their cones on a shaded wood path. Returning to Wading 

 River on July 24, we noticed from the car window, about a mile 

 to the west of the railroad station, many oaks and other trees 

 on the north side of the track in which the cicadas had laid their 

 eggs, causing the death of the smaller branches. During the 

 following two or three days we found that the seventeen-year 

 cicada had been very common about Deep Pond and on the 

 easterly side of Long Pond. At the former pond Mr. Engel- 

 hardt, Mr. Schaeffer and I might have collected a pint of the 

 dead insects and their pupa cases. Under date of June 9, 1914, 

 Dr. Frank Overton, of Patchogue, wrote me that the seventeen- 

 year cicadas were spread over several square miles northwest of 

 Calverton, about two miles from the Deep Pond locality men- 

 tioned above. He said he had taken " particular notice of them 

 for three miles along the Riverhead, Coram road about one or 

 two miles north of the station. They reached all the way to the 

 elevated lots and even scattering ones were found nearly into 

 Riverhead." 



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