D.D. Stoney 100 1977 10 Dec cont'd. gas at Palomares where the electricity was out and they pumped it by hand. The whole Papaloapan area is one vast early second growth area with many marks of fire. Am curious as to how it got this way, as it is too vast and unnatural not to be planned. There is a series of steep, forested hills, tho, just down 147 frm the Carro Pelon rd. that could be productive. Lunch at the Hotel Juan Luis ($45). then drove S for a wet site. First stop was Km 5 El Mesquite in the S slope of the hills. This is all deciduous forest and the lush of this summer is now dusty and brown. There were several possible sets here along the dry stream bed, but things were so open and dry that it seemed foolhardy to try. Sam set 2 Sceloporus here. Drove back N to the only real piece of forest we saw S of Matias Romero at 8.5 Km 5 Matias Romero (on Hwy 185). Almost no trees looked to be in deciduous. The area is a steep-sided stream valley just W of 185, reached by a small dirt road from the N. Set 6 nets (one 18', one 45', four 30'): 3 over standing pools of water, one in a dry portion of the streambed and two in a banana grove above the bed by ~50'. Nets up by 6:15. Activity declined rapidly after 8 when only Dermodius & a stray A. jamaicensis and