Afanecca, 4800', Def. S. Amuchafan, El Salvador April 18, 1942 Afanecca, a distance of some 11 miles. Found quarter - master board in the town. Went out to the base of the Vol- can de Afanecca, at about 5000', approximately 1/2 mi. SSE of the town. Saw numerous green sceloporus, of which I collected 4. Also collected an Anolis by the side of a road outside a coffee finca. The country here seems very dry and dusty. All about the town, and part of the way up the mountain, there are fincas and mil- gas. The Volcan seems to have heavy forest cover from about 5200' to the summit. The latter is well shrouded in clouds in the early a.m. In the p.m. I went to see Don Guillermo Salas, to whom I had a note from Hoff, at the Hotel Tres Mundos in San Sal- vador. Was received very kindly. Talked about na- tural history, about which his man does not know too much. He had an old 4 volume set of some Spanish natural history encyclopedia, while show- ing me the pictures in it, he came across one of a caecilian. He told me that he had seen these, but only in lower, hotter country. He had seen them at Amuchafan. The native name is Tepuleija. This is derived from an Indian word, tepul, meaning anus, and cuja, a corruption of the old Aztec coatl, or snake. Other names are culebra del recto and culebra del ano. This terminology springs from the popular belief that while one is asleep