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Sow-bugs 2 per cent, 



Myriapods lo per cent. 



Spiders 2 per cent. 



Grasshoppers and crickets 3 per cent. 



Ants 19 per cent. 



Carabids 8 per cent. 



,. Scarabaeids 6 per cent. 



Click beetles 5 per cent. 



; Weevils 5 per cent. 



Chrysomelids i per cent. 



Carrion beetles '. i per cent. 



Miscellaneous beetles i per cent. 



Total beetles 27 per cent. 



Cut worms 16 per cent. 



Tent Caterpillars 9 per cent. 



Miscellaneous larvae 3 per cent. 



Total cut worms, caterpillars, etc. 28 per cent. 

 The gravel and vegetable detritus were doubtless taken by 

 accident in the rapid stroke of the tongue with which the food is 

 taken into the mouth. It may, however, be of some value in grind- 

 ing up the food, though it is not always found in the stomach. Of 

 the total food 98 per cent is animal and by far the greater part of 

 this is insect life. 



In this brief account we will not discuss each of the items 

 in the above table, but we would call attention to the large pro- 

 portion of grasshoppers, ants, scarabaeids, click-beetles, weevils, 

 chrysomelids, cut-worms, tent caterpillars, and miscellaneous lar- 

 vae all of which are' for the most part injurious. 



THE AMOUNT OF FOOD THE TOAD EATS. 



When in the presence of abundance of food the toad eats a very 

 large amount. Mr. F. H. Mosher of Massachusetts fed between 

 thirty and thirty-five full grown celery worms to one toad in three 

 hours time. Mr. J. E Wilcox, an employe of the Gypsy Moth Com- 

 mittee of the Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture, before that 

 •committee was abolished and its work abandoned, fed to a toad 

 ■of medium size twenty-four fourth molt gypsy moth larvae, all of 



