24/ Left Guatemala city and drove to Antigua. There mum + daddy went off sight- seeing just before lunch and I took the car and drove to Sta. Maria de Jesus, at the foot of Volcan de Agua. On the road I found my first local herp, a 5 ft. D.O.R. colubrid snake of some sort. It was flattened and unsavable but the pattern was visible and original head shape could be guessed at. It appear had a sort of non- descript brown pattern, smooth scales laterally keeled scales dorsally + light venter. Scale rows probably in the twenties, very similar to an Elaphe but perhaps somewhat heavier bodied than most. It was found at between 1,700 and 2,000 meters elevation. I tried collecting salamanders just below Sta Maria at about 1,980m there were many bromeliads and I opened several dozen but the ground was very dry and dusty and only the largest bromeliads * had were wet inside, and all I found were invertebrates.