Pinto, Dean 2005 Hydromantes brumus, Batrachoseps dialolicus Hite Cave, South Fork of the Merced River, Mariposa Co., CA 37°38'19.5"N, 119°56'40.4"W (WAD27.5m), 458m January 22 I collected two adult H. brumus at 1:30 and 2PM. The first, an adult female (SMR #24), was in a large pile of mossy shale rocks next to the road just before the campsite at Hite Cave. The salamander was under a large mossy rock. The second, an adult male, was under a big, very mossy shale rock about 30m down the road on the slope above the road (SMR #25). Mike found a B. dialolicus (SMR#26) under a rock and Ted found an Ensatina e. xanthophis (SMR#27) in the same area. We looked more but didn't find any other Hydromantes. The area looked like great habitat except for the lack of limestone, and was very moist and mossy. The male Hydromantes had a speckled pattern on its eyes that looked almost like the granite pattern seen in H. platycephalus - I haven't seen this before in an H. brumus.