134 MALAY POISONS AND CHARM CUBES 



A small red unidentified millepede, called ielong or 

 pelong in Kelantan, which measures about 2 inches in 

 length, is not considered poisonous, but is used, as has 

 been seen, with the land-bug Mdng and the curious 

 httle pill-millepede. 



MOLLUSCS 

 SLUGS AND SNAILS 



A rare slug, about 4J inches in length, called kichar 

 lotong in Kelantan, is said by Malays to be poisonous ; 

 " if trodden upon, it causes an ulceration of the foot 

 Which will eventually reach the bones." Kechar lotong 

 is dark slate-grey in colour and is found only in dense 

 jungle. It is used as a poison with the bristles of the 

 marine worm ulai bulu laid, crystals (raphides) of the 

 decayed rengiit fruit, and vegetable hairs scraped from 

 the pod of a wild bean called kachang rinmu (Mucuna 

 gigantea, D.C.— Leguminosse). The dried slug, taken 

 with the irritating hairs and plant crystals, is said to 

 cause blood-spitting if swallowed by man. Kichar 

 lotoTig has been identified by Mr. G. C. Robson, of the 

 British Museum, as Atopos maximus, CoUinge, from a 

 Kelantan specimen (Ref, 3). No special reference is 

 made by Phisalix to poisonous slugs, 



Kechar Lakum.— A large land-snail called kichar 

 lakum (Naruna humphreysiana— Stylommatophora), 

 winch is found on liills and may reach 2 J inches in 

 diameter, is employed as a poison. It is crushed and 

 used much in the same way as the millepedes. Uncer- 

 tainty shadows the use of these molluscs ; they may 

 form vehicles without being poisonous in themselves. 

 It is noteworthy that no reference is given to them by 

 Phisalix. Castellani and Chalmers mention an unidenti- 

 fied poisonous snail in the Solomon Islands and ascribe 



