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1895 

 On June 15 I heard several seventeen-year cicadas singing near 

 the middle of the island, and on the i6th several others were 

 heard in the Clove \^alley. They also occurred at West New 

 Brighton. 



1896 

 The only evidence of the cicada on the island during this year 

 was the finding of a pupa case on Todt Hill on the 6th of June. 



1897 

 Dr. Joseph C. Thompson gave me a red-eyed cicada with pupa 

 skin, which he had found on a tree on Belair Road, Rosebank. 



1898 

 As the seventeen-year cicada appeared in considerable numbers 

 on the island in 1881, it was expected that they would be found 

 quite abundant in 1898 (see Proc. Nat. Set. Assoc. Staten I. 6: 

 60. S 1898). A cicada pupa was found in its cone on the side 

 of the Clove Road as early as April 30. Later other cones were 

 found at the same place among the dead wet leaves, and by the 

 middle of June the insects were heard in many parts of the island. 

 They were abundant on Todt Hill and Ocean Terrace, also in 

 the Clove Valley, and on June 12 I received a box containing 104 

 cicada pupas collected by the family of Mr. Charles W. Leng at 

 West New Brighton. Mr. Louis H. Joutel also found a consid- 

 erable number of cicadas on the 5th of June at Fort Lee, N. J. 



1902 



In June a seventeen-year cicada was found at \\'est New 

 Brighton in Mr. Leng's garden, and on June 12 I found a pupa 

 skin in the valley of Logan's Spring brook. Considering that 

 Brood X was so abundantly represented in parts of New Jersey, 

 it is remarkable that more cicadas were not found on Staten 

 Island in 1885 and 1902. 



1906 



In April ]\Ir. Alanson Skinner gave me a pupa that he had 

 found under a stone in the Clove \'alley,and on June 10 we heard 



