"wife Aug. 8, 1950 One of the nitros just brought in a living Sonna cermula! The head is white, except for a black area involving the supraoculars, frontal and parietals. There is a narrow black ring on the maps, followed by the red coral color of two thirds of the dorsal surface. There are two trails on the posterior third of the body and another on the tail. Each of the red scales is marked with a central black dot... The ventral color is tull white, the trails being obscure but not absent. & now have the bots, Bob. There was a light rain last night. Previous to that it had rained only one or twice in the last 12 days. During July, the waters was over the dam 6 times! Now the water stand 7 feet below the top of the dam. Aug 9, 1950 Our first Oxybelis was brought in yesterday. Rodney (one of Clary's sons) assured us that it sucked cows dry, calling the tea to become hard, dry. Mrs. Hoye (Clary's mother) says that a rainy season is never officially under