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THE PERIODICAL CICADA. 
of lliis placo, and tlu* iiorlhciii limit tlien was tlie present southern 
limit of the territory covered now (])y Brood X, 1885)." 
^Ir. James Pagon, Winnsboro, Fairfield Count}", S. C, writes that 
locusts appeared in South Carolina in 1878, l)ut does not give definite 
localities. Both these records need confirmation. 
A record submitted bv the late W. S. Robertson, of Muskogree, 
Ind. T., in a letter dated June 17, 1879, of the occurrence of a brood 
of cicadas in 1839 at that point, was assigned, in the publication just 
referred to, to Brood XV, under the supposition that it probably 
belonged to the 17-vear race. This record falls, however, in territoi-v 
Fig. 29.— Map showing distribution of Brood XXIX, 1917. 
wliich is distinctly 13-year, and would seem to indicate that it 
belonged rather to Brood XXIX. 
The distribution of this brood, by States and counties, is as follows: 
Georgia. — Union. 
Indian Territory. — Muskogee. 
South Carolina. — Fairfield. 
Brood XXX— Tm/m?/)— 1918. (Fig. 30.) 
This brood was established by the writer on a single record given 
in Bulletin 18 (new series) of this Bureau. Tliis record follows: 
^Ir. B. II. Brodnax, Brodnax, Morehouse Parish, La., writes under 
date of May 13, 1892, that cicadas are scatteringly present, and in a 
