Mayhew 1961 June 15 Journal 45. Dale Dry Lake, San Bernardino Co., Cal.f. at 0515 Walt Mobely & I left UCR for Dale. We arrived at our collecting site at 0730, and found to our surprise that most of the animals had returned underground by then. The air temp. (30") at that time was 36.0°C. Nevertheless, we looked for lizards from 0730 to 0930, then we drove up Iron Age Mine Road to look for Sauromalus obesus. We saw no adult Sauromalus, but we caught one of two young animals that we saw near the mine. We just looking for lizards at 1000, then checked 7 of the traps we have set near the old campsite. One adult Citelius [illegible] teticandus & one dead baby C. tetricandus were in one trap, along with several beetles. After we gathered our soil sample, we drove to 29 Palms to try to cool off a bit (max. temp. today - 110°F. We returned to Dale about 1630, but it was still so hot no animals were active (air temp. [30°] was 108°F. at 1630). We checked the other 7 traps & looked for lizards until sundown, but few of them were active. We took 6 Uina scaparia from traps (1 adult) as well as 3 Chioractis occipitalis (2 dead). In fact, the adult