-82* 
SAPIUM INDICUM Willd. 
The needs were used in India as a fish poison and as an insecticide.— 
Roark (532 , p # 35) • 
SEBASTIANA PAVONIANA Muell. Arg* Arrowwood. 
This speoies is found in Guatemala* Its milky juioe oaused the 
death of various insects ♦ — Scarone (363) • 
STILLINGIA SYLVATICA L. 8tillingia. 
Extracts from this plant were not repellent to the Japanese beetle, — 
Metzger and Grant ( 277 ) * 
TRAGIA sp» 
This is one of the inseotioidal plants occurring in Nicaragua.- 
Roark ( 332 , p. 38). 
Comments by reviewer .— Despite all the work done on the numerous 
species of Euphorbiaceae, none have yet furnished material for a 
valuable insecticide. 
PABACEAE 
(Pea Family) 
ABRUS PRECATORIUS L. Prayer beads. 
Extracts of the roots and stems killed only 10 percent of the 
mosquito larvae tested.— Harte ell and Wilooxon (1 88 ) . 
ARACHTS HYPOGAEA L. Peanut* Groundnut* 
Many published papers discuss oil of peanut or groundnut as an 
insecticide and repellent. 
ASTRAGALUS GUMUIFER Labill* 
Various gums were tested with oils to find stable emulsifiers. 
Tragacanth gum was unstable.— Ginsburg (158 ) • 
ASTRAGALUS spp. Locoweeds. 
When honeybees were poisoned by these plants, adult workers and 
pupae were mostly affected, the field bees dying first and then the pupee. 
The queens frequently died, and the colonies became demoralised, and 
sometimes died.— Burnside and Vansell (72)* 
