Hanken, James 1976 Journal Hotel Mayorga, Fortín de las Flores, Est. Veracruz, Mexico 26 July to Tecelo where Sam Sweet and Ted Boganfuss have collected Thoinis in great numbers in December + January several years ago. The locality is just N of the town in a cafetal of coffee + banana plants along the slopes of a deep ravine. We spent over an hour here and never found one Thoinis despite having turned numerous rocks, logs, etc. I found one more of the dark ring-necked snakes. From Tecelo we returned to Fortín for the night. Southwestern Research Station, Chiracahua Mtns., Portal, Arizona 6 August Doug and I arrived here last night after driving yesterday from Alpine, Texas, having crossed the border from Mexico at Eagle Pass the evening of 3 August. I haven't made any journal entries since Fortín on 26 July, and will here summarize the intervening days: 27 July: Doug and I drove from Cuatlapam straight through to Chilpancingo, Guerrero. We left most of our collecting gear and liquid nitrogen containers w/ Miguel Acero, not wishing to carry anything which might give the Federales cause to give us grief in Guerrero.