Greene, D. 1992 August 9 (continued) At this point I left Dave filing and hiked fast up to the ridge. At 1122hr. I found C. molossus ?#8 and #14 lying side by side in sun at the same site. He is in a hairpin w/only head & tail out of burrow; she is fully exposed in a hairpin of two loop segments, and her cloacal region is swollen - I infer they have copulated. As I take photos, he retreats so that only his head is visible, watching me and/or her. Her head is partly under the edge of the adjacent coil and never moves. At 1202hr I'm back at the site of copulation and #9 seems to be pulling out or she is pulling off. At 1204hr they separate, we see his still everted and bifurcated hemipenis pull free. At 1207hr his hemipenis is completely retracted and we see what we presume is semen in the grass. When they separated he remained loosely coiled, she crawled slowly around the side of the agaric and I caught her w/out difficulty. We celebrated w/ a picnic lunch at the pull-out. After lunch we processed snakes: our new ? C. molossus #15 (frog. 8090), 897 + 52 mm, 635g, 5 segments incomplete and parallel; a from Cathedral Rock and a from near the Post Office - both requisitoted stomach contents (see catalogue for full data). We also processed two large C. atrox found last Wednesday (August 5) in combat by Karen Hayes