[THE PERIODICAL CICADA IN SOUTHEASTERN INDIANA. 
By Amos W. Butler, BrooliviUe, Ind. 
In presenting what I have to say concerning the Periodical Cicada, I 
have tried not to follow in the footsteps of others. I have gathered 
much information that is new to me, and, coupled with this, the fact that 
these observations were made in a locality where this insect had not 
been previousiy studied shall, I trust, assure me your consideration. 
From our older inhabitants I learn the Cicada has heretofore ap- 
peared in Franklin County in the years 1834, 1851, and 1868. This 
year I have received reports of its occurrence in the counties of Dear- 
born, Decatur, Rush, Union, Ripley, Franklin, Fayette, Wayne, and 
Delaware. The latter, however, is not one of the counties in the south- 
eastern part of the State. In Delaware County my informant reports 
it as “not abundant”; in Union County it was very common; and, I 
should think, was as numerous in Dearborn and Ripley Couuties. In 
this county and in Fayette it was at no place as common as was ex- 
pected. We are entirely without the range of the thirteen -year race. 
The regularity of its appearance in certain localities is very interest- 
ing. Dr. George Sutton, of Aurora, writes me: “In 1851 the first I 
saw fully developed was on the 24th of May. In 1868 I first saw them 
on the 28th of May. This year I discovered them on the 29th of May, 
although there was evidence that a few had made their appearance a 
day or so before.” Its appearance in Franklin County this .year was 
very irregular. The first representatives appeared in a few localities 
on May 28, and in such localities Cicadas were rather common two days 
later. In other places, less than half a mile from those just mentioned, 
no Cicadas appeared until June 4, and in other neighborhoods they were 
even alter in coming forth. 
Many pup* were turned up by the plow in April and May. When 
these insects emerge from the ground it is with a rush, and a lively 
scramble ensues for each elevation near the point of their emergence. 
Trees, bushes, weeds, poles, stumps, fences — in short, everything upon 
which they can get above the level of their recent homes is ascended. 
A friend tells me that his hogs thought so much of the Cicadas as an 
article of food that they would not return to their accustomed feeding 
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