proportions, and a semi-trailer truck that was parked opposite us on the street with the motor running for the last four hours of our stay. May Dick Anderson of the university garage be consumed by mosquitoes on his final day. 29 April Awoke at 10:00 AM to a farmer plowing his field next to us. Out off and went we Itarungi for breakfast which we finished around 11:00 AM. From Itarungi we drove back south again to pick up Hwy 281 and drive east on this road looking for localities to kill time at before calling the woman at San Benito to check about the plates. We checked the following localities: 0.8 miles W. La Poloma (i.e., junct. Hwy 281 & Texas farm road 732), Cameron Co., Texas. An drainage old irrigation ditch paralleling a newer ditch just next to it. Fields on either side but much weedy growth in the relatively shallow water, & also good clumps of water hyacinths. Worked the ditch on both sides of Hwy 281 Thamnophis proximus: Sam got two and saw a third. Of the two snakes caught, the larger has a pale orange mid-dorsal stripe on an essentially brownish (not olive green) area below the large lateral stripe but above the tips of