IIs OHIO STATE ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 
The toad is one of our best friends inasmuch as the number 
of flies and insects that he devours daily is prodigious. It is 
needless to say in this connection that the superstition that holds 
among many, that evil effects will follow the killing of a toad is 
a most advantageous belief, but bears a different interpretation. 
Did there exist more such superstitions the cause of scientific 
agriculture would be strengthened tenfold. 
Generally distributed over the State, common everywhere. 
Specimens in the U. S. Nat. Mus., recorded by Cope from Marietta. In 
the Oberlin College Museum, collected by Lynds Jones from Lorain Co.; in 
O. 5. U. Mus., collected by the author at Cedar Point, Vinton, Youngstown, 
Chillicothe, Newton Falls and Licking Co. 
family: TAYLIDAE. 
Acris gryllus crepitans Baird. Above olive-brown, with an inverted 
““y'-shaped green area; the median parts of the ‘‘Y’’ extend along the 
vertebral line, the forking taking place on the rump. Brown triangle 
between eyes. Sides marked with three oblong blotches. White line from 
eye to shoulder. Disks of fingers small, not webbed. ‘Toes with broad webs. 
Snout blunt. Inner surface of thigh immaculate. Length 1% inch. 
The Cricket-frog is well known to anyone who frequents the 
river-side or the swamp-——less, however, by its appearance than its 
note. If one can imagine a rattling of pebbles mingled with the 
screech of a violin string ina high note, he may have a sugges- 
tion of the Cricket-frog’s note. When given it is either a contin- 
uous chirp or given in sets of chirps of three each, each rising in 
pitch. Sonearly does the color of the frog blend with that of 
its surroundings that it is detected with but the greatest difficulty. 
In the Cricket-frog we have virtually a Tree-frog with ter- 
restrial habits. The presence of the terminal suckers on the toes 
would seem to indicate a former arboreal mode of life. Common 
everywhere. 
Specimens in O. S. U. Museum from Central College, Franklin, Dela- 
ware, Lawrence, Warren, Fairfield, Ottawa and Knox Cos., and collected by 
the author from Ross and Trumbull Cos., and at Youngstown, Newark 
and Vinton. 
Chorophilus triseriatus Wied. Toes scarcely webbed ; fingers without 
webs. Ground color above ashy, with a brownish median dorsal stripe, 
dividing into two above in middle of body. Lateral to this on either side 
and running parallel on level with ear is a brownish stripe. A third stripe 
runs along the sides of the head from the snout backward, making in all six 
stripes running more or less parallel. Length 1 inch. 
