THE LIME INCH-WORM. 
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and continue to make their way through the bark of the trunk and 
large branches during the whole of the summer. They immediately fly 
into the top of the tree, and there feed upon the epidermis of the tender 
twigs and the petioles of the leaves, often wholly denuding the latter, 
and causing the leaves to fall. 
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. 
2. Pogonocherus nubilus Lee. 
According to Le Conte this longicorn lives in the bass-wood. 
AFFECTING THE LEAVES. 
3. The lime inch- worm. 
Hibernia tiliaria Harris. 
Order Lepidoptera ; family PHAL^ENiDiE. 
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, descend- 
Fig. 172.— The lime inch 
, the wingless female, and the male.— From Comstock. 
ing at the end of June to the ground and pupating three or four inches under th© 
surface of the soil ; appearing as moths with their buff-brown wings in October and 
November. 
