NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM IO5 



William T. Davis of New Brighton, Staten Island, well known 

 because of his enthusiastic love for nature, states that this insect 

 appears to have been limited to that part of Long Island extending 

 from Central Park and Farmingdale south to Massapequa and east 

 to Mastic. He states that there were countless numbers of small, 

 dead branches in the areas between Farmingdale and Massapequa 

 and rightly concludes that the cicadas were extremely abundant. He 

 states that there were a great many eggs or attempts to lay eggs in 

 Baptisia and that as in previous years there was a marked restric- 

 tion to colonies or groups. There was one thickly infested area 

 east of Massapequa along the railroad track and another about 2 

 miles north. In both the insects occurred in countless numbers. 



He further states that Charles P. Benedict of Staten Island heard 

 several periodical cicadas singing about his house on the Manor road. 

 He adds that in 1902 several of the insects were taken at West New 

 Brighton not far from where Mr Benedict resides. 



H. Schmucker of Islip, under date of June 3d, reported that he 

 had seen great numbers of the periodical cicadas in the shrubs 

 about a mile north of his home. Prof. C. R. Crosby of Cornell 

 University informed us July 24th that he had seen a large cicada 

 colony west of Farmingdale. 



The earlier Columbia county record is based on a report in the 

 Saugerties Telegraph of June 26, 1902, to the effect that the insect 

 was reported at Claverack. A special effort was made to locate 

 individuals the past season and as no results were secured the 

 infestation must be very sparse if existent. 



It was found impossible to secure any confirmation of the occur- 

 rence of this brood in the western portion of the State, namely in 

 Monroe, Niagara and Ontario counties, and if colonies occurred 

 in these sections they must have become greatly reduced. 



Bat bug (Cimex pilosellus Horv.). There are several 

 bugs very closely resembling the widespread and sometimes common 

 bed bug of dwellings, Cimex lectularius Linn., which 

 are occasionally found in buildings. 



An exceptionally interesting case of this kind came to our atten- 

 tion early in June 1921, at which time evidence of the previous 

 abundant presence of C. pilosellus were noted in a bat-fre- 

 quented attic of a brick building at Rensselaerville, N. Y. The bats, 

 we were informed, had been destroyed previously by fumigating 

 with burning sulphur and several pailsful of their bodies were 

 removed. The bugs or their remains were extremely numerous in 



