Hendrickson 1950 Journal Sept. 12 29 Palms, 2000 ft., San Bernardino Co., Calif. Gorsalis beside the road. Ward Russell collected it with a slingshot. Visited Monument Housequarters and spent about an hour in conversation there. One of the men reports a Heloderma seen wandering down a road in 29 Palms "quite a few years ago"; this was presumably an escaped animal. Enroute to Cottonwood Springs, stopped at White Tanks, 3750 ft., Riverside Co., Calif. This is another picnic area of huge granite boulders and coarse granite gravel. Just after leaving the car, upon crossing the picnic area, Dr. Miller found a small (this year's?) Bytho punctatus (see species account). I wandered along a small wash running among and under large boulders of the picnic area until I came upon one of the tanks. A small concrete dam had created two pools of run-off water (each about 10' x 20'). These pools were fairly well shaded by boulders, and had a semi-permanent appearance. There were patches of rank grass about the margins, and dead stems of rushes in the water of one of the pools. One contained myriads of Eubranchippus (?) and many Gnus (?). A killdeer flushed from this pool as I approached. Collected several tiny Bytho from mud at margins of the pools. Below the dam was a series of small pools,