no.1655. NOTES ON VERTEBRATES FROM INDIANA // I // V. 557 



Amphipods were found in the stomach of an adult of this species, 

 which was found on a rock at the edge of the stream where these 

 crustaceans were abundant. Small diptera were also found in their 



stomachs. Amphipods and hectics placed in the aquaria were not 

 eaten by either lar\a> of adults which were kept in captivity. 



Total length, 93 mm. ; snout to axilla. II: snout to groin, 38. Costal 

 grooves. 14. The median dark -pot- form a narrow, somewhat broken 

 line from the occiput to base of tail. Lateral dark stripes becoming 

 diffused over lower pari of sides. 



DIEMICTYLUS VIRIDESCENS Rafinesque. 

 GREEN TRITON; NEWT. 



Very ahundant in all of the ponds. The eggs and young larvae 

 were not found, hut young about :'>."> mm. long were taken on August 

 1. One of these transformed between the L8th and 21st of the same 

 month. Young of the red. or so-called miniatus form, were found 

 under old logs in the woods on two occasions, and one was also 

 found in the cave mentioned in the account of /'. cim n us. 



BUFO LENTIGINOSIS AMERICANUS <• (Le Conte). 

 TOAD. 



Very common. It was not seen until Hie last of April. At that 

 time the adult toads gathered in considerable numbers about the 

 ponds, and their high-pitched but musical note was beard every night 

 from April till July. At this time no young toad- were seen. AJbout 

 the 1st of duly the tadpoles began to transform and the little toads 

 became ahundant everywhere. Individuals of small size, which had 

 evidently transformed a year previous, were numerous during the 

 slimmer, though none of these were seen early in the spring. 



ACRIS GRYLLUS (Le Conte). 

 CRICKET FROG. 



Perhaps the most ahundant of the tailless amphibians. During 

 the autumn it was seen everywhere, in the woods, the fields, and along 

 the roads. While not uncommon near the ponds and creeks, it ap- 

 peared to he equally at home at a distance from them. All colors, 

 from bright green and rusty red to nearly black, were seen. 'Idle 

 smooth-skinned variety {A. grylhis gryllus) was not observed. 



In the spring the note of the cricket frog was not heard till later 

 than that of the Pickering or chameleon tree-frog. The eggs were 

 not certainly identified, but very small eggs were ahundant in many 

 of the ponds during the first two weeks of June. The cricket frog 

 was ahundant in the vicinity of these ponds, and no other frog which 

 could possibly have laid the eggs Was to he found at that time. The 



"Toads from this region bave recently been Identified by Miss Mary < '. Dicker- 

 son as Hiifn fowleri Putnam. 



