March 1894] D.WIS. On SeVENTEFN "\'f.AR CiCADA. 39 



(Iocs nol a])pcar in i^^rcat luiiubcrs in the east, but fs mainly locatrcl 

 in Wisconsin antl neighboring states. Staten IsUuul, Kssex Co., 

 N. J., and (iermantown, Penn., were apparently the only eastern 

 localities from which the insect was reported in 1881. 



In i>S85, Brood XXII was to make its appearance in the east, 

 but the only evidence of the Cicada on the Island, was the finding 

 of a single wing along a wood path in the Clove Valley. In Penn- 

 sylvania the insects occurred in great numbers, antl more sparingly 

 in New Jersey, and in the vicinity of Brooklyn on Long Island. 



In 1888, I found a single male Cicada on the Island on the i6th 

 of June. It was unable to fly as one of its fore wings was defor- 

 med, and conset[uently must have been borne in the immediate 

 vicinity. 



What follows for 1889 and 1890 probably applies to Brood 

 VIII, which was expected to make its appearance in the first named 

 year on Long Island and in parts of Pennsylvania and West Vir- 

 ginia. In \'ol. I, No. 4, of the Proceedings of the Entomological 

 Society of Washington, this Brood is recorded from North Carolina 

 and West Virginia, and in less numbers from the District of Co- 

 lumbia, Marylantl and New Jersey. 



In the summer of 1889 Mr. Jos. C. Thompson gave me a pupa 

 skin of a red-eyed Cicada, which he had found on a grass stem, 

 and which was the only evidence I secured of the presence of the 

 insect on the Island. 



In I S90 the Cicadas were not expected to appear in any part 

 of the country, but they were, however, more common in Staten 

 Island than in 1889. In early summer three pupa skins and two 

 imagos were found, and on September 8th, I dug a live pupa from 

 a liill of potatoes. 



In 1892 the Seventeen-year Cicada were heard singing in three 

 different districts of the Island, and specimens were also secured. 



In 1893 they were more numerous than in the previous year, 

 and were heard singing in various parts of the Island. Mr. Leng's 

 children gave me specimens collected in his garden at West New 

 Brighton. It is not unlikely that the Cicadas of 1892 and 1893 

 were precursors of the general swarm that is to come early next 

 summer. 



