270 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. I4I 



Order SALIENTIA 



Family BUFONIDAE 



Bufo funereus Bocage 



Natural prey. — Cockroaches, Belgian Congo (Noble, 1924): The 



stomachs of 62 out of 72 specimens contained food; this included 3 



cockroaches. 



Bufo ictericus Spix 

 Natural prey. — Cockroaches, Brazil (Valente, 1949) : Stomach 

 contents revealed the prothorax, legs, and wings of cockroaches, and 

 fragments of wood-cockroaches. This toad frequently feeds at night. 



Bufo marinus (Linnaeus) 



Common name. — Giant toad, marine toad, Surinam toad. 



Natural prey. — Epilampra ahdomen-nigrum, Trinidad (Weber, 

 1938) : Found in the stomachs of two toads. 



Diploptera punctata, Hawaii (Pemberton and Williams, 1938). 



Periplaneta sp., Fiji (Lever, 1939) : Many householders in Suva 

 have seen the toad eat considerable numbers of these cockroaches. 



Pycnoscelus surinamensis, Hawaii (Alicata, 1938; Illingworth, 

 1941). 



Cockroaches, Nicaragua (Noble, 1918) : Stomach contents of toads 

 captured at street lamps in Rio Grande consisted chiefly of large cock- 

 roaches. Puerto Rico (Wolcott, 1937). 



Bufo valliceps Wiegmann 

 Experimental prey. — Periplaneta americana, U.S.A. (Moore, 

 1946) : Cockroaches containing infective acanthellas of Moniliformis 

 dubius were fed to three toads. 



Family HYLIDAE 

 Hyla cinerea (Schneider) 

 Common name. — Green tree frog. 



Natural prey. — Ischnoptera dcropeltiformis, Periplaneta americana, 

 and undetermined cockroaches, U.S.A., Georgia (Haber, 1926) : 

 Cockroaches were found in 11 of 100 stomachs. 



Family RANIDAE 

 Arthroleptis variabilis Alatschie 

 Natural prey. — Cockroaches, Belgian Congo (Noble, 1924) : Of 

 52 specimens examined, the stomach contents of 17 contained food, 

 including 3 cockroaches. 



