Henken, James 1978 Journal Veracruz localities: 17 Dec Today we made all, repeated earlier attempts to get the Thorius "huatusco" of McDiarmid by visiting his localities but again failed. We did, however, get two salamanders, apparently Chiroplecototus. Later we drove to the Thorius locality near Teocelo visited by Sam Sweet and Ted Papenfuss, working the rocky talus above the road near the bridge as per their directions but got nothing 18 Dec This morning we worked the Barranca de San Miguel locality of Sam and Ted for near Ceratitlan but found no Thorius. We did get 3 Parrimidge and 2 Tixaction. Following this we left Veracruz for Mexico City and the permit office. ~~21-24 Dec~~ Ambystoma collecting in Mexico, Hidalgo, and Michoacan 20-24 Dec For the past four days Tom and I have been visiting Ambystoma localities that either were unsuccessful last summer or weren't visited. On 20 First we collected animals near Pachuca, at both El Chico Natural Park and at the pond near Nopaltepec. El Chico animals were collected both during the morning (daylight) and evening (dusk) by dip-netting in the stream running through the