Seib, R, 1982 Tapachula, Chiapas México 20 Aug 69.50 on the dollar when I cashed a 100- dollar traveller's check. I felt disgusted. Sent a telegram to Ted Pappenfuss & came back to the hotel to get Allison. Drove out to San Jeronimo, arriving 13.30. They had four snakes, including a Micrurus. The told me that it was not going to rain today, so they would be able to look all afternoon for snakes. I worried at this because I didn't want to pickle 100 snakes in the room tonight. Skipped on up to Monte Perla, where they had 31 snakes. Among these were a Micrurus and a fascinating snake that I can't identify at this point. This latter I would certainly call a Tantilla if it had an orangish-reddish belly. It has highly polished smooth scale, a light ring around the neck, medium-length tail, and a Tantilla-like body form. However, the venter has a pale greenish aspect, unlike Tantilla I have seen. I wait for Berkeley to make my I.D. It barely sprinkled at Monte Perla & had not rained there today. Again, the people were calm & well-behaved around me when I bought the snakes, speaking their Mayan dialect. One man tells me that just across the border, only a few kilometers, there is another dialect which is mutually unintelligible. He