1804.) Proceedings of Scientific Societies. 455 
1889. 
Brood No. VIII was expected to appear in southern Massachusetts, 
on Long Island and in parts of Pennsylvania and West Virginia in 
the summer of 1889. It returned, according toa note in Vol. 1, No. 4, 
of the Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, in 
considerable numbers in parts of North Carolina and West Virginia, 
and in less numbers in the District of Columbia, Maryland and New 
Jersey. 
The only evidence that the seventeen year Cicada occurred on Staten 
Island in 1889, consists of a pupa skin found on a grass stem during 
the summer by Mr. Jos. C. Thompson, and kindly given to me. 
1890. 
During this year the Cicada was not expected to occur in any part 
of the country. In June and July, I found in a garden in New 
Brighton, three pupa skins, and my sister discovered one of the perfect 
insects on the trunk of a pear tree, but it was unfortunately destroyed 
by the family cat. Mr. Leng also found a red-eyed Cicada on an apple 
tree near the Moravian Cemetery, while he was “ beating” for Longi- 
corns, j 
On the 8th of September 1890, I found, in a hill of potatoes, a live 
red-eyed Cicada pupa, which I endeavored to rear, but without success. 
1892. 
On June 5th, I heard a seventeen year Cicada at West New 
Brighton, and the next day Mr. Leng’s children caught me a speci- 
men, and a few days later a second example. On the 11th of June there 
Were many of the Cicadas singing in the high trees about Logan’s 
Spring Brook, and on the 12th, I heard one near Rossville. 
1893. 
On June 11th, the Cicadas were fairly numerous in the woods along 
low Brook, and later in the month I heard them along Logan’s 
Spring Brook. Mr. Leng’s children also gave me two specimens from 
garden at West New Brighton. : 
{tis well-known that a few seventeen year Cicadas often make their 
“Ppearance in the year previous to their. general visitation, 50 that 
those collected in 1893, and even in 1892, may have been precursors 
a of the general swarm which is to come early next summer, that is, 
_ “venteen years from the visitation of May and June, 1877. 
