Definica, 4800', Dep't. Amachapan, El Salvador April 19, 1942 Vine growth had succeeded. All this terrain was most arid. We returned down the slope to the village, on the out- skirts of which I took Jaculis and an Ameira by the side of the road. In the early afternoon Don Guillermo Salas and a friend of his took me to the Laguna de Definica, which is about 2 mi. NW of the town. This lake occu- pies the center of an old crater. The walls rise to a height of about 300' and are heavily wooded. The lake itself is small, shallow and choked with a dense growth of water-lilies. In spite of the filthy condi- tion of the water, I was told that up to a few years ago it furnished the town's water supply. At one end there is a concrete dam, with a water gate. At the opposite end the lake tails off into a dense tule swamp. The higher ground between the lake bed and the gently rising crater walls is grassy marsh- land. The entire area was alive with frogs, large, small, & medium in size. They were extremely wary, and though I waded out into the lake, my progress was so hampered by the lily ponds that I could not approach any frogs closely enough to catch them. I had better luck in the tule swamp. Although the ground was soft & my feet sank in up to the an- kle at every step, there were so many frogs that I could not miss them all. I took 2. The three of us then looked around the lake. At one point we di-