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Extracts were not repellent to the Japanese beetle.— Metsger and 
Grent (277). 
SESBANIA ACULEATA Poir. 
In West Africa the natives claimed that animals washed in water in 
which the leaves of this shrub had been pounded could safely traverse 
a tsetse fly belt*— Dalziel (112 ) . 
SBSBANIA AEGYPTIACA Pere. Synonym: AeBohynonmene sesbania L. 
In the Punjab the seeds mixed with flour, were applied external ly» 
as a remedy for itch* — Kirtikar and Basu ( 250 , v. 1, p. 418) • 
SESBANIA PUNCTATA DC. Sabral* 
The natives in Africa used a decoction of the leaves for washing 
animals to prevent bites of the tsetse fly.— Holland ( 19 7, p. 198) • 
SOJA MAX (L.) Piper. Soybean. 
Many papers discuss soybean oil as an insecticide, but since this 
oil is not poisonous, it is effective in other ways, chiefly mechani- 
cally. A review of it will not be given here. 
SOPHORA FLAVESCBNS Ait. 
A decoction of the stems and leaves is used in Japan as an insecti- 
cide. — Greshoff ( 171 , p. 65) . 
SOPHORA GRIFFTTHII Stocks. Synonym: Keyserlingia griff ithii Boiss. 
The powdered seeds mixed with oil kill lice in the hair.— 
Greshoff ( 171 , p. 65). 
SOPHORA JAPONICA L. Pagoda tree. 
Extracts of the roots killed 20 percent of the mosquito larvae 
tested but extracts of the stems killed none.— Harts ell and Wilcoxon ( 188 ) . 
SOPHORA MOLLIS R. Graph. 
This plant was used as an insecticide in India.— Chopra and Badhwar (98 ) • 
SOPHORA PACHYCARPA Schrenk. 
This species grows wild in central Asia and is a rich source of an 
active alkaloid, pachicarpine, which might be used as a contact insecti- 
cide. Sophodust has been proved effeotive in controlling aphids.— 
Anonymous (33). 
