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Evidences of their work were abundant about two miles south 

 of Germantown and three or four miles south of that station. At 

 Kinderhook small numbers were reported in the orchards of Mr 

 Edward VanAlstyne and William Hotaling. Mr VanAlstyne 

 states that there was a numerous colony on another farm of his 

 some two miles west of the home place. There were abundant 

 evidences of Cicada work in a patch of woods about one mile 

 south of Niverville on the Albany Southern Railroad. Scat- 

 tering insects were reported at North Chatham on the farms 

 of W. W. Woodward and Theodore Horton. Along the line of 

 the New York Central Railroad there was evidently an abund- 

 ant colony one-half mile south of Stockport and two miles south 

 of this station they were even more numerous. The insects 

 were also reported from Stuyvesant Falls. Mr S. S. Simmons, 

 West Taghkanic, states that Cicadas were abundant in that local- 

 ity some eight miles east of the Hudson river and only a few 

 miles from the southwestern corner of Massachusetts. 



Dutchess county. Mr H. D. Lewis reported the Cicadas as very- 

 numerous at Annandale, they appearing first May 24th. The 

 insects were very abundant in portions of a small orchard near 

 the residence of Mr Lewis's father, some trees being very badly 

 infested, while less than fifty feet away comparatively few 

 Cicadas were to be seen. The orchard some distance from the 

 house, which was badly infested in 1894, showed comparatively 

 few this year. Mr Lewis states that the insect occurred here and 

 there on the ridges from the river practically to the Connecticut 

 state line. Cicadas were excessively abundant on the estate of 

 Warren Delano near the river. They were literally present in 

 millions, immense numbers of pupal shells being observed 

 clinging to the branches and lying at the base of the large oaks 

 and maples. Probably several quarts could have been scooped 

 up around almost any one of the trees. The Cicadas were ex- 

 ceedingly numerous on this estate in 1894. Mr W. H. Hart 

 noted Cicadas for the first time in his Arlington orchard ]\Iay 

 25th. Early plowing resulted in turning up pupae so abundant 

 in some places that there appeared to be more insects than soil. 

 Mr Samuel H. Cox reported millions of Cicadas in the vicinity 

 of Bangall. They were rather numerous near the Barrytown 

 station. Mr H. D. Lew^is of Annandale states that several 

 orchards in Barrytown were ruined, even trees set some fifteen 

 years ago.. In one instance a recently set orchard had the two 

 rows next a badly infested woodland severely affected, while all 

 of the other trees practically escaped injury. There were a few 



