B. Shaffer 1976. Journal En route to Los Uigos, St. Poebbe + Vencuy, Mexico. is very dry w no trees. You cross the river, then lead back up the N-w side of the valley- by 900-1000 m. you are broke into good-looking oak stands. Our route on this new road went as follows. Xalapa haaLomas. Truncos. Hwy 140. Coutepac. la Abonudo. Jalcomulco Phillo Partly TOTOtla Huy At the town of La Joya (post Jalapa) we stopped to work a pine slope - this area as is everything else up here is fairly thin pine & oak forest w little ground cover. We worked a lot of slope + got nothing- then at the bottom of the slope I got one small pseudoryger bellii under a rock. There were a lot of volcanic pumice rocks around- perhaps when it dries out the sale marinus dig down into the rocks ?, so cannot be found. Also