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Oil of wormseed and carbon disulfide were the best materials to use 
in emulsions to destroy larvae of the Japanese beetle. The principal ac- 
tive ingredient of this oil is ascaridole, although other ingredients 
are also toxio to varying degrees*— Leaoh and Johnson ( 243 ) • 
Powdered American wormseed was effective as a repellent to screw- 
worms for only 2 days*— Parman and coworkers (302 ) « 
Extracts were not repellent to the Japanese beetle.- Metrger and 
Grant (277). 
The oil of wormseed (25 p.p.m.) killed 90 to 100 percent of the 
mosquito larvae tested.— Hartzell and Wilcoxon ( 188 ) • 
CISTACEAE 
(Rockrose Family) 
EELIANTHEMJM CAKADENSE (L.) Michx. Sunrose. 
Extracts were not repellent to the Japanese beetle.- Lietzger and 
Grant (277). 
CLUSIACEAE 
(Balsam Tree Family) 
CALOPHYLLUM INOPHYLLUM L» Alexandrian laurel. 
The seeds or berries contained nearly 60 percent of a fixed oil, 
which was used for medicinal purposes - , being considered a cure for the 
itch. — Drury (122 , p. 99). 
In India the fixed oil obtained from the seed kernels was said to 
oure soabies.— Watt (422 , v. 2, p. 31). 
Extracts of the bark, which are said to be used as a fish poison 
in East Africa, had little toxic effect on citrus aphids. — Worsley ( 431 ). 
CALOPHYLLUM SPECTABILE Willd. Kulit bentangor. 
A 5-percent water extraot of the bark of this Malayan fish-poison 
tree killed none of larvae of the moth Parasa herbifera (Wlk.), and a 
similar extract of the roots killed only one- fifth of 1 the larvae treated.— 
Gater (155). 
CALOPHYLLUM WIGHTIANUM Wall. Synonym t £. spurium Chois. 
In India the oil from the seeds was used in cutaneous affections, 
and an infusion mixed witn honey was used for scabies.— Watt ( 422 , v» 2, 
p. 33). 
