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a seventeen-year cicada singing in a tree at Richmond Valley. 

 On parts of Long Island, as at East Port, Yaphank, Half Way 

 Hollow hills, Pinelawn, etc., Brood XIV appeared in consider- 

 able numbers. 



1907 



A note was made upon this brood, now knowri in Mr. Marlatt's 

 arrangement as number XV, in these Proceedings for October, 

 1907, from which we quote the following: "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." 



1910 



Mr. Isaac Wort, of Woodrow, reported to me that he had 

 heard several seventeen-year cicadas singing about his farm in 

 early summer but that they were not numerous. Seventeen-year 

 cicadas are usually to be found in small numbers in the summer 

 previous to their regular appearance, and no doubt those of 1910 

 were precursors of the great swarm that is to appear in May and 

 June, 1911. 



