N slope Mt Tacaguatepe, 4600' Dep't Morazan, El Salvador Jan. 7, 1942. At last finally caught it. It is a medium size Bana with white dorsolateral lines and a white line on the upper lip, suggestive of Bana sphencephala. In the afternoon went reptile hunting in the oaks just north of camp. I saw a Sceloporus malachiticus about 60' up in an oak. About 6' away perched a smallish Bu- teo. At my approach the hawk moved to face me, whereupon the Sceloporus ran like a streak down the tree trunk about 10', and disappeared into an old woodpecker hole. The trunk was straight up and down, and the lizard ran straight down. Took a Guatemala Woodpecker (1017) with the .22 shot pistol as it spiralled up an oak tree. Returning, I surprised a medium- sized colubrid snake (1018) which led me quite a chase over logs and through the brush before I checked it with a load of dust. Shot through the body. The snake was still quite active but slowed up enough for me to get my foot on it. It struck actively but not like a poisonous snake. The coral snake I caught struck repeatedly and force- fully at my boot without mouthng it, but this snake seized my pants leg in its mouth and chewed on it. Our native boy called it