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From the records of 1890 it was to be supposed that some evi- 

 dence of the small and scattered brood of the periodical cicada, 

 now known as Number XV, would be found in 1907 on Staten 

 Island and in neighboring parts of New Jersey. On March 31, 

 Mr. Alanson Skinner gave me a pupa that he had found under a 

 stone at Woodrow. On June 22 I heard several cicadas singing in 

 the trees at Woodrow and vicinity, and found two pupa skins in 

 an apple tree on the farm of Mr. Isaac Wort. Mr. Wort had also 

 heard the cicadas at various times, and he presented me with a 

 pupa which he had found some time before my visit. 



The following day a cicada was heard at Watchogue at the 

 other end of the island. Later in the summer, while with Mr. 

 Henry Bird in the Clove Valley, we each found a pupa skin of 

 the seventeen-year cicada. Mr. Chas. P. Benedict informs me 

 that he found in June many pupa skins as well as fully developed 

 cicadas at his house on Manor Road, West New Brighton. In 

 New Jersey the seventeen-year cicada occurred at Westfield, 

 Plainfield, and Newfoundland. 



It may be seen from the foregoing that the individuals were 

 quite numerous and no doubt sufficiently so to insure the insect's 

 appearance in 1924. 



