Hanken, James 1978 Journal Hotel Mansión Imperial Oaxaca, Est. Oaxaca, Mexico 13 Dec The previous two days were spent repeating the attempt 4 made last summer to collect Thorius minutissimus at to type locality of Santo Tomas Teipan in near Tehuantpeque. We took the dirt road to Sta. Maria Entepex that leaves the Pan Am Highway ~1½ km W of la Reforma at an elev. of ~700 m. We then dropped down to ~500 m at the river crossing after ~9 km. This time we were able to cross the river in our VW bus. The road then steeply ascends to ~1760 m at Sta Maria Entepex at km 30. Continuing on the road we reached S.T. Teipan after an additional 24 km where the road ends ~1 km before the town. The approx. elevation is 2200 m. Unfortunately, here in this whole area, the original forest has all been cut or burned previously, and either there is a chaparral- scrub-like vegetation of thick dense undergrowth with scattered oaks or remnant pine forest with sparsely scattered pines with exposed ground in between. Few logs exist to turn; those present are mostly charred, the ones wet and dark were either dry or, if not had no salamanders. We hiked beyond the town where the forest remnant is a bit thicker, but cover is sparse (people were seen returning to the village with burros loaded with firewood) or dry, despite the thick fog the area seems very dry at this time of year. The vegetation force, though, did seem depressed in elevation, possibly