and there is a high fog. The ground was covered with leaf litter and was saturated with water. Nate found two adult Amerides lugubris under leaves up against the trunk of a tree. We stopped at this area at about 9:00 A.M. These Amerides lugubris have much more of a brown tone to them compared with those we found at Briceburg yesterday which were a deeper purple black color. The Amerides lugubris that Nate found were just under leaves not under a rock or board. One which he had picked up was squeaking. The other was right up against the base of a sycamore tree. L.B. Ruth 1969 Journal Feb Clear Creek 3 miles off Hwy. 9, Brookdale, Santa Cruz Coy Calif. We arrived here at about 10:30 A.M. The sun broke through the cloud cover and the sky was clear. The creek was quite high and we were not able to find any Dicamptodon larvae. I found about 6 Amerides flavipunctatus niger all close to