'j6 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



on the western end of Long Island, on Staten Island and in 

 practically all of the counties on each side of the Hudson river 

 from New York City north to Saratoga and Washington counties, 

 the northernmost limit recorded the past season being at Thom- 

 son, Washington county. The insects extend some miles back 

 from the Hudson river, probably to the Massachusetts state 

 line in the vicinity of Annandale and in Orange county, possibly 

 some twenty miles or more from the Hudson river. There is, in 

 addition, a recently discovered populous colony near Fonda in 

 Montgomery county. 



Albany county. Near Albany Cicadas were extremely abundant 

 in Graceland Cemetery, Normansville; were heard at Clarksvilie 

 by J. Shafer Bartlett; evidences of their work were observed in 

 Coeymans near Coeymans creek from the West Shore Railroad, 

 and they were reported from Dunnsville by the:. Albany Evening 

 Journal. A complaint of injury by this insect to orchard trees 

 was received from Mrs E. K. W. Vanderzee who lives near 

 Feura Bush. Cicadas were very abundant at Kenwood just 

 south of Albany and numerous in Wildwood valley and probably 

 other sections of the Albany Rural Cemetery at Menands. The 

 insects appeared to be rather generally distributed in Ravena 

 here and there southward to the Greene county line. Mr 

 Bronk Van Slyke of Ravena states that they were present in his 

 orchard and that seventeen years ago they were very numerous, 

 seriously injuring it, and that on the occasion of the preceding 

 appearance, thirty-four years ago, the insects destroyed a nearby 

 orchard. Cicadas were reported in 1894 from New Scotland, 

 Voorheesville and Bethlehem Center in addition to some of 

 those named above. It is very probable that it also appeared in 

 these localities in 191 1. 



Columbia county. Cicadas were reported as being present at 

 Claverack by Mr G. G. Atwood of the Department of Agricul- 

 ture. Mr H. D. Harvey writes that they were very abundant at 

 Copake Falls,^ near Hillsdale. Mr Thomas T. Hartigan of 

 Ghent states that up to June 9th Cicadas had appeared in small , 

 numbers compared to those which obtained in 1894, when there 

 seemed to be millions of the insects. Observations on the New 

 York Central trains showed numerous signs of Cicada work from 

 a little south of Hudson nearly continuous to North Germantown. 



1 The Copake Falls record given above refers to the colony reported in 1894 

 from Hillsdale. 



