INSECTS INJURIOUS TO THE LINDEN. 125 
They deposit their eggs, two or three in a place, upon the trunk or 
branches, especially about the forks, making slight incisions or punct- 
ures for their reception with their strong jaws. As many as ninety 
eggs have been taken from a single beetle. 
AFFECTING THE LEAVES. 
2. THE LIME INCH-WORM. 
Hibernia tiliaria Harris. 
Order LEPIDOPTERA; family PHALZNID&. 
In May and June, defoliating the branches, a bright yellow looper or measuring 
worm with a rust- 
colored head, and 
ten crinkled black 
lines along the 
back, descending 
at the endof June 
to the ground and 
pupating three or 
four inches under 
the surface of the soil; ap- 
pearing as moths with their 
buff-brown wings in October 
and November. 
teint 
While this worm is 
often found on apple and 
elm trees, the lime or 
linden is its proper food- 
tree. The females are 
wingless: and grub-like, much larger than the female 
canker-worm moth, white, marked with two dorsal rows 
of black patches ; they lay their eggs in little clusters 
in crevices in the trunk or in the branches, and in the 
spring when the leaves begin to unfold they hatch. 
Their habits are similar to those of the canker-worm, Fic. 60.—The lime 
and the best means of protection against them are those  ¢h worm. —From 
employed against the canker-worm, ti. ¢., the use of tarred paper 
daubed over with printer’s ink or troughs of oil around the trunk of 
trees to prevent the females from ascending the trees to lay their eggs. 
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The male.—Pale ochreous, with light brown specks and bands. Head, body, front 
or costal edge of th@fore wings and transverse band on the wings concolorous, being 
pale brown. Fore wings with a point, curved, sinnate, diffuse inner line; outer line 
dark brown, slightly sinuate, with a large obtuse angle in the middle of the wing; it 
is shaded externally with a broad pale-brown band, which breaks up into flecks on 
the outer edge ; a well-marked discal dot. Hind wings without any markings, some- 
what paler than the fore pair. Expanse of wings 2 inches. 
