the ventrals. Natrix rhombifer : Sam saw me. Cnemidophorus sp: Jim saw two. Chrysemys scripta : I found a dead ? at the edge of the water at the bottom of the canal. Orange markings on the carapace and black blotches centered in each scute of the plastron. Not saved. Drove into the far west side of Brownsville to find a phone and call Sanborn's at around 1 P.M. No plates according to Mr. McCormick. So headed back out Hwy 281. Route paved cut-off to Villa Nueva and worked a locality. Vicinity Villa Nueva (0.6 mi. W. junct. Hwy 281 & Farm Road 802 on Hwy 281), Cameron Co., Tex. Irrigation canal area again but this time we worked a small ditch below the canal & paralleling a fenced field - where there were several frogs - and a more or less open area between another an elevated patrol road & an acacia bordered open field. The Cnemidophorys abundant in th.