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NYSSA STLVATICA Marsh. Tupelo* 
Extracts were not repellent to the Japanese beetle*— Hetzger and 
Grant (277)* 
Aoetone extracts of the leaves of dogwood killed 60 peroent of the 
mosquito larvae tested.- Hartzell and Wilcoxon (188) • 
CRASSULACEAE 
(Orpine Family) 
KALANCHOE SPATHULATA DC* 
The leaves were used as an insecticide in India*— Chopra and 
Badhwar (98)* 
CUCURBITACEAE 
(Gourd Family) 
BRYONIA ALBA L. White bryony* 
The root and other parts can be used against aphid6.--Gomilevsky 
(164)* 
CITRULLUS COLOCYNTHIS (L.) Schrad. Synonyms* Cucumis colocynthis L., 
Colocynthis vulgaris Schrad* Colocynth. Bitter gourd* 
Decoctions were recommended in France against leaf-eating cater- 
pillprs on fruit trees.— ilesne (244 , p. 511)* 
An excellent remedy for the cactus aphid, red spider, etc., was 
colocynth tincture, whioh was applied to the infested plants with a 
stiff brush* This tincture was made of 2 gm* of colocynth extract, 
dissolved in 100 oc* of 95 percent alcohol*— Graebener (168 ) . 
The pulp was ineffective against bedbugs, roaches, and clothes 
moths*— Scott and coworkers (361 , pp* 5, 13, 26)* 
Colocynth was of no value against chicken lice and dog fleas*— 
Abbott (£7, pp* 7, 11). 
A 10-percent extract in water and fructus oolocynthidis had no 
effeot on the caterpillars of Prodenia lltura (F*). — DeBussy (76)* 
Commercially prepared extracts of colocynth were not toxio to the 
bean aphid*— Tattersfi eld, Gimingham, end Morris (393 )* 
The use of aqueous extracts of colocynth, or bitter gourd, for 
mothproofing is discussed in a petent (Ger. 488,307)* — Roark (335, p* 24). 
