Seib, R. 1982 Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico 18 Aug arrived it began to pour and didn't light up for 50 minutes. At this point, 15:40, I walked down to the finca and was flooded by people who wanted to sell me snakes at the new prices. They had 50 snakes! I quickly tried to escape to go process at the pitling rock. At Monte Pella I would never need to escape the Indians because they are so polite. They never crowd me and it's a pleasure to be near them. I was afraid, however that we had too many snakes to finish before dark (19:00). We drove to the rock and processed all the snakes. There was a pretty Scaphiodontophis which was cut in half. We also got a Pimobius chloroticus, but its eyes were crushed into its head. Finished at 19:00 and drove to San Jeronimo. It was dark and I bought snakes by the light of our VW headlights. The flood of approximately 100 people really inundated us. They pulled metal off the car and broke the side-view mirror. Among other snakes, there was a live Micrurus, 2 live Xenodon, a Rhadinaea posadasi, and a beautiful Tantilla tayrae, the new