222 Jan. 25, 1951 wife Santa Monica Mtns, Los Angeles Co, Calif. Dicie Campa Last week there was a heavy rain, and the ground is still wet. The last four days have been warm (in the 80's); it seemed like good collecting weather. Dicie Campa has been rather manfled by bulldozers, but there is still plenty of surface litter. No salmonidors were found. The only reptiles seen were Sceloporus occidentalis. Mulholland Drive, 0.5 mi E Topanga Rd Here there is an abundance of surface litter (for paper, wallboard, tin, etc.) on a grassy knoll and beside willows in the draw. One adult Cnemocera schistocerius was found in dry grass beneath a piece of cardboard. Under a piece of tar paper I found a small (SV 11") Jampropeltis getulus californicus which was dead but not yet decayed. There was a hole in the ventral body wall 7" back from the tip of the nose, from which protruded the tail of a skink. The tail segment was 3.4" long, 1" of which was still in the snake's stomach, where it appeared to be stuck fast - It looks as if the lizard actually