B. Staffen. 1976. Journal Mexico: Veracruz, Catamauca. 4 Feb. asked for help. They told us to go back to the head mtn of the station in San Andres Tuxla. We did this. & the way, Refugio Sardido, took us to the dirt road to the mtn. Note - we collected near town earlier in the day. First, we ascended a ridge about 2 km. from Catamauca. On the way up I got on a frog, & Jim a Sceloparus. It was really dry, & no other herps were caught. Then we went into the outskirts of town, about .7-.6 km. W.E. of the town gymme. Under a pile of junk, I got the only salamander - a Bolitoglossa. It looks very similar to the platydyctyle we've been getting, and is definitely in the Mexican group. Also in a log pile I dug out 2 Bifio marinus. We worked the area a bit bit longer, then took off, for it was hot, dry & w little good cover. The general aspect of everything is cut over, dry, & inhospitable - definitely not good salamander country. We saw no bromilid's, and logs had more scorpions than anything else.