INSECTS INFESTING THE LOCUST TREE. 



The Legged Locust Borer (XyleiUuii fob- 

 inice) 152 



The following insects also infest the Locust 

 Tree: 

 The Greedy Scale (Aspidiolus rapax). 



The Legless Locust Borer (^Clytm r()lniiia>).15S \ The Elm and Locust Scale. 



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The measurements of insects in this work are ijiven in inches and lines. The above cut rep- 

 resents one inch divided into lines and fractions thereof. 



CHAPTER CLII. 

 The Locust Carpenter Moth, or the Legged Locust Borer. (Cal) 

 {Xi/lc lit us rohinix. — Peck.) 

 Order, Lepidoptera ; Family, Bombycid.e. 



[Living in the trunks and larger limbs of locust, willow and 

 oak trees ; a greenish-white, sixteen legged worm.] 



The common names given to this borer, " Legged, etc.," are 

 to distinguish it from the grul) of Chjtus rohiniix, which also 

 infests locust trees and is destitute of legs. 



Fig. 227. 



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Fig. 227. — Legged Locust Borer ; the full grown caterpillar 

 — cohn-, greenish-white, with a tinge of pink or yellow. 



This borer (Fig 227) keeps its burrow open, and not packed 

 full of woodv fibres as manv other borers are known to do. 



