=================================+==========+===========+============= | | Percentage| Number of |Individual| of total | stomachs in Items |animals | (154) | which found | |individuals| ---------------------------------|----------|-----------|------------- Mollusca | | | _Pupilla muscorum_ } | | | _Gastrocapta_ sp. } | 3 | 1.9% } | 4 _Vallonia pulchella?_ | 4 | 2.5 } | | | | Arthropoda | | | Arachnoida | | | Arachnida | 15 | 9.7 | 9 Acarina | 13 | 8.4 | 3 | | | Insecta | | | Orthoptera (_Ceuthophilus_)| 2 | 1.3 | 2 Hemiptera | 1 | 0.6 | 1 Coleoptera | | | adults (carabids and | | | buprestids) | 8 } | 30.9 | 7 larvae | 38 } | | | | | Hymenoptera | | | ants | 62 | 40.2 | 7 wasps | 2 | 1.3 | 2 | | | Unidentified | 5 | 3.2 | 5 +----------+-----------+------------- Total | 154 | 100.0 | ---------------------------------+----------+-----------+------------- Adult and larval beetles comprised about 28 per cent of the total items, but were found in only seven of the stomachs. Beetles eaten were small representatives of beetle groups likely to occur in or under logs. A relatively large species of spider was found in nine stomachs; it represented only ten per cent of the items taken but was one of the most important foods when mass is considered. Two adult salamanders not included in Table 1 were found, in the course of examination for parasites, to have empty stomachs. One was a male, and the other was a female taken from a chamber that held an egg cluster. It would not be surprising regularly to find stomachs empty in "incubating" females, but the fact is that the one other such female collected by us had a small amount of food in the gut; probably these individuals take anything that enters the egg chamber, but do not leave for active pursuit of food.