B. Shiffa 1976 Journal Mexico: Fortin + Cuatlapan, Veracruz. 30 Jan. and one thing that is built like a Contia, but w/ Diadophis markings. The Ninia? were found at 1015 - 1035 m. el., ? the Contia-like snake at 1060 m. All snakes were under medium sized rocks, which were all the kind turned. Apparently he also discovered that rocks give the greatest numbers of specimens, if not the highest diversity! Jim also picked up an Arole out running around - this was the only lizard seen. Basically, the salamanders were found under moist, smallish rocks, and in the very damp banana axils + logs. Snakes were found under drier rocks, near near banana plants. No frogs were seen, and nothing fell out via cave in altitudinally (1 snake was found lower down, on a dry patch of dirt, under a rock.) We paid our debt, which worked out to be more after talking to the father Victor, then went back to the Fortin locality. We went into a banana finca there, & I got 3 snakes very similar to the Contia shrimp, but in stead of an orange ventra, they had a blue one. All were under