Mr, Davis also exhibited specimens of the 
Seventeen-year T.ocust and read the follow- 
ing memoranda: 
SEVENTEEN-YEAR LOCUSTS IN 1902. 
According to the newspapers we were to 
have a swarin of 17-year locusts in this 
locality during the past Summer. However, 
it was not to be expected that they would 
occur On Staten Island in any numbers, for 
seventeen years ago, in 1885, only a pupa skin 
and a detached wing were recorded from this 
locality (see Proceedings for February 10,1894.) 
About the same evidence was collected this 
season. In June a 17-year Cicada was found 
in Mr. Leng’s garden at West New Brighton, 
and later I found a pupa skin in the valley of 
Legan’s spring brook. Onr ‘locust year ” 
will be in rg1r. The U. S. Department of 
Agriculture distributed a circular early this 
year requesting information on the subject, as 
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the brood of Cicadas to appear had a wide 
distribution, being principally known in parts 
of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio and 
Illinois, 
Mr. A. B Skinner exhibited a living 
specimen of Muhlenberg’s Turtle and gave 
the following aecount of the same : 
MUHLENBERG’S TURTLE FROM SILVER LAKE, 
- The specimen exhibited was found in Silver 
Lake last September, and the species has not 
before been reported from the Island, Turtles 
and other aquatic creatures are occasionally 
liberated at Silver Lake and possibly the 
present specimen found its way there by that 
means. In Jordan’s Manual the habitat of 
Chelopus muhlenbergi is given as Eastern 
Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and in the 
Zoology of New York DeKay mentions two 
specimens.from Rockland County. 
