Hankin, James 1976 Journal Hotel Quinta Villa, Tamazunchale, Est. San Luis Potosí México 12 July Yesterday, Doug Ehlers and I spent another frustrating day looking for salamanders in the area about Tamazunchale, driving N and then out of C and then W towards the town of Xilitla. We drove to Almacatán to collect C. magnipes in the Cueva de la Iglesia when Allen + Philip Green Sam Sweet, and I had collected over 15 last May. We found none after looking for over an hour. Sr. Grano, whose house property includes the cave, said that the animals disperse when the weather is wet. This is apparently the case as it has rained in each of the last eighteen days (unusual in its amount) to the extent that the farmers' crops are rotting in the ground. Continuing W we worked a stand of tall deciduous forest (mostly Acer) outside of town, and then the pine-oak forest above El Lobo, all to no avail. We continued driving W to search for other habitats, but none looked as good as those where we worked and we returned to Tamazunchale. We did find a large yellow and black banded snake DOR W of El Lobo and