REPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST I912 III 



Professor Hudson adds that he has not been able to look for the 

 insect since 1893, though he believes it to be a rather regular visitor. 

 Apparently it was not abundant in that section last October. 



The flight of the cotton moth was closely followed in some local- 

 ities by the appearance of numerous specimens of the lime tree 

 winter moth, Erannis tiliaria Harr., a species mistaken by 

 some for the cotton moth. This latter form was reported by Mr 

 E. P. Van Duzee as unusually abundant at Buffalo on October 226.. 

 It was numerous around the electric lights of Schenectady in the 

 week of October 10th, according to Richard Lohrmann. Numerous 

 specimens were also observed about the same time in different 

 sections of Albany. The same phenomenon, though perhaps not 

 to such a marked extent, was noted by Henry Bird at Rye. 



Southern captures. In connection with the record given above 

 relating to the large flights of the cotton moth, Alabama a r - 

 gillacea Hubn., we deem it advisable to place on record the 

 capture by Mr Henry Bird at Rye of the following three species 

 of southern Noctuids : A u t o g r a p h a ox y gram ma Geyer, 

 Anomis erosa Hubn. and A n t i c a r s i a gemmatilis 

 Hubn. Mi' Bird states from observations covering a period of 

 twenty-eight years, that he has not previously noted these insects in 

 that locality. 



Periodical Cicada (Tibicen septendecim Linn.) . The 

 appearance of a large brood of this insect in 191 1 aroused much 

 interest, and as an indirect outcome, we received from Prof. G. A. 

 Bailey June n, 1912, a report that he had found several nymphs 

 of this insect emerging from the ground on Major Wadsworth's 

 estate at Geneseo. Subsequently adults were forwarded and there 

 can be no question as to the identity of the insect. Professor 

 Bailey states that the few observed occurred within a narrow radius 

 in a piece of second growth timber. There is a record of a colony 

 of brood 12, the one which appeared in such large numbers in the 

 Hudson valley in 191 1, in the northern part of Pennsylvania and 

 not so very distant from Geneseo. Should the insects noted above 

 belong to this brood they must be considered as stragglers, other- 

 wise it is necessary to associate them with brood three, no colony 

 of which has been recorded nearer New York State than central- 

 western Ohio and the northern portion of West Virginia. This 

 seems to be a weak colony, since we have been unable to obtain any 

 information respecting the earlier appearance of the insect in that 

 section. 



