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PESTS ATTACKING LOHCEOCAHPUS 
In 1954 TTille (470) recorded Ifliizo pcrtha dominica F. attacking cube 
root ( Lonchocarprus sp. ) in Peru. In 1937 Wille et al . (471) and in 1938 
Jones (223, 224) recorded S inoderu s bifoveolatus Woll. as a pest of cu"be 
root. 
USE OF LOECHOCARPUS AS A FISH POISON 
As early as 1565 the use of fish poisoning plants by the natives of 
the Antilles was recorded by de Rochefort (358). He wrote of the use by the 
Caraibos of a certain wood which is cut into pieces, "beaten up, and thrown 
into fish po^ls. 
Barrere (IS) in 1743 wrote an interesting account of fish poisoning 
by the natives of French Guiana who used inckou (= Lonchocarpus) as one of 
the plants for this purpose, 
Gumilla (180) in 1791 described the catching of fish on the Orinoco 
River by moans of cuna (Tcphrosia) and barbasco. 
Stodman (396) in 1796 wrote of his travels in Surinam during 1772 to 
1777. The natives there catch fish by inclosing the entry of small creeks 
or shoal water with a paling, shooting them with their brident arrows, or 
poisoning the water by throwing in it the roots of hiaree, in Surinam called 
tringoc-woodo or konamce, by which the fish boco.c stupefied, and are taken 
by hand, while they float on the surface of the. water. 
Eilhouse (192) in 1832 in writing of the Indians living in the In- 
terior of British Guiana described their method of catching fish by stop- 
ping creeks at high water, and infusing the hai-arry, or the gonami, in the 
shallows, the intoxicating qualities of which cause the fish tc rise and 
float insensibly on the surface. 
Eilhouse (193) in 1834 further described fishing with hai-arry. The 
root, which is of slow growth, is, when full grown, three inches in diametor; 
it contains a white gummy milk, which when expressed is a most powerful 
narcotic, and is commonly used by the Indians in poisoning the water to take 
the fish. Tncy beat it with heavy sticks till it is in shreds like coarse 
hemp; they then fill a coorial with water, and immerse the hai-arry in i t; 
the water becomes immediately of a milky whiteness, and when fully saturated, 
they take the coorial tc the spot they have sleeted, and throwing over the 
infusion, in about twenty minutes every fish within its influence rises to 
the surface, and is either taken by the hand or shot with arrows. A '-olid 
cubic foot of the r~>nt will poison an acre of water even in the falls, where 
the current is so strong. The. fish are not deteriorated in quail sy, nor 
do they taint more rapidly when thus killed, than by being netted or other- 
wise talc en. 
St. Clair (392) in 1834 mentioned naka or heri (a bush) and nebe 
(a vino)", the roots of which arc used to stupefy fish by the Indians of 
the Guianas. 
