Seib, A. 1982 Tapachula, Chiapas, México 11 Aug Bolitoglossa occidentalis, denser than five ever seen them. In the cut trunks of old bananas ("platanos") I found 7 on the quadrat alone. 13 people worked for 66 minutes. Allison and I discovered at this point that we had shot 30 pictures over the last two days with an empty camera! We went back to where we worked quadrats 1,2,3 yesterday. We made a new quadrat and there was no success finding snakes so everyone lost interest. We gave up after more than an hour and dismantled the quadrat myself in disgust. Came back to Tapachula. Pickled the few animals we had. Afterwards we went to the hotel restaurant and wound down with a couple of beers. After a few cold 6%o beers, we ordered dinner. Just in the middle of dinner, the old fart who manges the hotel came up to our table. In an outstandingly loud voice he said "Who isss Robert Seib!" He then said, "You must leof tomorrow!" He then showed me a newspaper clipping with my name on it and the title, which read, "300 Venomous snakes en Hotel Kamico." He told me,