Fig. -24. Tlic 



Army worm, 



Leticania inii- 



jimictd. 



During the army worm outbreak of the past vear, the writer had 

 occasion to observe the toad in the role of a destroyer of this 

 insect. At Hingham, Massachusetts, two toads were observed 

 busily engaged in feeding upon a migrating '• army " of these larvae 

 while in all the devastated fields toads were very abundant. Dis- 

 sections of three toads taken in infested fields revealed the presence 

 of nine, eleven and fifty-five array wormsin their respective stomachs.* 

 When one considers the annoyance and damage caused by cut 

 worms, the value of the toad is at once apparent. These insects are 



*Mas8. Crop Report, July 1896, p. 35. 



