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"June 2ist, H. C. Dawes, J\Iarlboro; July ist, Silvanus VanAken, 

 Port Ewen; July 8th, C. E. Davis, Saugerties; July 12th, N. D. 

 Rand, West Camp ; July 6th, C. W. Hyatt, Peekskill, and June 

 13th, Annis E. Thomson, Yonkers. 



The date when the last cry or song- of the male was heard is 

 also of value in determining this period, it ranging from June 

 loth to August 2d or 6th. No one conversant with the party 

 can question the record given by Mr Davis, though there is a 

 bare possibility that Mr Bulson may have been mistaken. The 

 detailed records are as follows: July 12th, S. S. Simmons, West 

 Taghkanic; July 14th, H. D. Lewis, Annandale; June 12th, 

 Eugene Smith, Aliddletown; July 8th, C. B. Coleman, Goshen; 

 July loth, W. T. Davis, New Brighton, S. I. (he records hearing 

 a belated individual August 2d) ; August 6th, Sylvester Bulson, 

 Stony Point (one male nearly over his head) ; June 27th, 

 Silvanus Vanx\ken, Port Ewen; July 8th, C. E. Davis, Sauger- 

 ties; July 6th or 7th, C. W. Hyatt, Peekskill, and June loth, 

 Annis E. Thomson, Yonkers. 



Above-ground chambers. These peculiar structures which 

 excited so much attention in 1894 could doubtless have been 

 found in many localities the past season. Mr H. D. Lewis of 

 Annandale reports their rare occurence in a few places ; Mr C. B. 

 Coleman, Goshen, found a very few; Mr R. G. Doxey, Moun- 

 tainville, observed them in low spots; Mr. W. T. Davis of New 

 Brighton, S. L, states that they were rather common in the 

 William Brook woods ; j\Ir Silvanus Bulson found them numer- 

 ous at Stony Point. Investigations at New Baltimore and at 

 the Graceland Cemetery in the vicinity of Albany showed these 

 above-ground chambers to be rather common though, as a rule, 

 they were not nearly so perpendicular as appears to have been 

 the case in 1894. On scraping away dead leaves the chambers 

 were to be found mostly in an oblique or horizontal position, a 

 few being vertical (plate 23). We fail to find even one locality 

 where they were so numerous as represented by the photographs 

 of the late Doctor Lintner, taken seventeen years ago. 



The variety C a s s i n i i appears to have been nearly over- 

 looked though Mr William T. Davis of Staten Island records 

 finding small numbers of this form June i6th near AVillow Brook 

 and Westerleigh. Mr Isaac Wort, Rossville, gave Mr Davis two 

 specimens taken by him in that localit}' June i8th. 



Appearance of the Cicada in the Hudson valley. The detailed 

 records given below show that the Cicada appeared during 191 1 



