32 • THE PERIODICAL CICADA. 
yet a detachment of it certainly occurs in Ohio, for Mr. Clarke Irvine, of Oregon, 
Holt County, Missouri, well remembers their occurrence in central Ohio in 1845 and 
1862. Though there is no knowledge of the appearance of this Brood XIV in Illinois, 
yet the fact of its occurring both in Ohio and in northern Missouri, and that, too. but 
one year after Brood XIII, would indicate that there may have been in times past, at 
all events, if there is not at the present day, a geographical connection between these 
two broods. 
1879. — This brood was well recorded in 1879 from Missouri and espec- 
ially Kansas, while reports from other States give it a much wider ex- 
tension in the trans Mississippi States than was previously recorded. 
The reports from Missouri do not add anything new, since they all 
come from the northwestern portion of the State, where the brood was 
already by well-established previous visits, and I would only mention 
that, according to Mrs. Barbara M. Shiesl (letter of June 16, 1879), 
Saint Joseph belongs to those cities which have had this brood within 
their limits. 
In Kansas the extent of the brood has been studied by our trusted 
correspondent Mr. Eobert Milliken, of Emporia, who wrote me as follows 
on June 22, 1879 : " I have been at some little trouble to inquire regard- 
ing the extent of the distribution of the Cicada septendecim in this State 
at the present, and learn that it is general throughout the central counties. 
I have positive information of their occurrence in Lyon, Morris, Chase, 
Marion, Greenwood, Coffey, Osage, and Woodson Counties, wherever 
there are belts of timber." The following reports refer to localities in 
Kansas not mentioned by Mr. Milliken : Mr. J. Paulsen, Fort Scott, 
Bourbon County (card of June 16, 1879), states that they were in great 
numbers at his place, injuring apple trees. From the same county they 
are reported by Mr. G. C. Willey, of Uniontown (letter of June 20, 1879), 
stating that the Cicadas are in the timber skirting the streams in his 
county, and that ki their number is beyond the comprehension of man." 
Mr. J. F. Willard (card of June 20, 1879) briefly recorded them from 
near Alma, Wabaunsee County, and near Louisville, Pottawatomie 
County. Mr. M. J. Burdge (card of June 25, 1879) stated that the 
Cicadas made their appearance in the timber along the streams in John- 
son County. Finally, Mr. J. C. Harruu, of Humboldt, Allen County, 
wrote (June 11, 1879): "There are great numbers of the Cicadas along 
the Neosho and other rivers, in the timber belts, and a few have found 
their way to the hedges on the prairies." It will be seen that these 
localities form a nearly compact region in the eastern third of Kansas, 
and there can hardly be any doubt that this brood occupies also the 
extreme northern and southern counties in the same section of the State. 
The northernmost point reached by this brood, so far as now estab- 
lished, appears to be Pottawattamie County, Iowa, in which State, ac- 
cording to Prof. C E. Bessey (vide his map in the Amer. Entom., Ill, 
p. 27), it occupies the eight counties comprising the south westeru corner 
of the State. 
