liUoiiI) XIV SKI'I'KNDKrl.M l<li;:t. 
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swarms (^xtcMuliiii:: from PcimsvKaiiia soul liw aid into iioiilicru 
Vir<^inia and in tli(' Lower AUcjj^Ikmucs, covering portions of Xoith 
Carolina, Teiinosso(\ (i(M)r<^ia, etc., and in {\w Ohio \'all('\ i(>Lri<'n, 
C()V(»rin«i: especially southern Ohio, Indiana, central Iventucky. and 
western West Virginia.. 
Brood XI\' has Ixhmi cai'c^fnlly studicnl, notahly so on the occasion 
of its ai)j)(>arance in IDOC), when a ^^vvAi many n(>w records u(M(» 
ol)tained hy this Bureau and by the entomoloLcists of the scNcral 
States included within its rantije. 
Important new records w(M'(* scH'ured and kindly snhmitted to this 
Fig. 17.— Map showing distribution of Brood XIV, lOL'.'i. 
office by Messrs. (iannan, Feriiald, Felt, Sherman, Ilowser, Bentley, 
and Ramsay, for, respectively, Kentucky, Massachusetts, New York, 
North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee, and West Virginia. 
The occurrence jointly with this brood in 1906 of the small and 
rather unimportant 13-year Brood XVIII leaves some doubt as to 
the correct assio^nment of certain swarms in southern Illinois, w(\stern 
Kentucky, and Tennessee. 
The starred counties indicate the occurrence of the Cicada in on(^ 
or more characteristic dense swarms; the italicized counties are con- 
firmations of old records, and the counties inclosed in parentheses are 
old records not reported in 1S9S. The lar<j:e dots on tli(^ maj) (fi*::. 17) 
