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EUPHORBIA MARGINATA Pursh. Synonym i Diohrophyllum marginatum 
Klotzsoh St Garoke. 8now-on-the-mountain. 
A decoction was ineffective against cotton o aterpi liars •— 
Riley (325, p. 186). 
EUPHORBIA NERIIFOLIA L. 
This speoies was said to be used as an inaeoticide in Sind, India,— 
Roark ( 532 , p. 22). 
Extracts applied as sprays against adult mosquitoes were much in- 
ferior to the standard mosquitocide.— Wats and Singh (421 ) • 
BUPHORBIA RESINIFERA Berg. Cactuslike plant of Morocco. 
Buphorbium gum had no effect on the caterpillars of Prodenia 
litura (F.).<— DeBussy (76). 
Various gums were tested with oils to find stable emulsifiers. 
Euphorbium gum mas unstable.- Ginsburg (15 8) . 
BUPHORBIA sp. Spurge. 
A decoction of spurge gave only 38 percent kill of Mai aco soma 
neustria (L.) •-- Oorlainov (166 ). 
EUPHORBIA THYMIFOLIA L. 
This plant was stated to be used as an insecticide in India.— 
Chopra and Badhwar (98). 
EUPHORBIA TIRUCALLI L. 
This speoies was used as a fish poison and as an insecticide in 
India.— Roark (332 , p. 22). 
All parts of this plant were said to poison fish in East Africa, 
but it was not widespread. A 2-peroent extract of the stems killed 
72.5 percent of the oltrus aphids sprayed. —Worsley ( 431 ). 
This tree in East Afrioa was said to keep away mosquitoes .--Bally 
(50). 
EUPHORBIA VERMICUIATA Raf . 
Extracts were not repellent to the Japanese beetle.— Metzger and 
Grant (277). 
