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Seib, R.
1982
Tapachula, Chiapas, M\'exico
22 Aug relaxed, so easy to talk with. Drove back to town and did a little shopping. I was so exhausted that I went to bed at 20.30.
23 Aug Woke up, had breakfast & drove out to San Jeronimo, arriving 11.00. I found three people and told them I wanted 100 caecilians. I told them I would pay 10 pesos each because they were so abundant. This price lasted for the first 4 caecilians, when they threatened to quit on me and go look for snakes. At this I upped the price to 20, so that the caecilians could compete with my snakes. They quickly caught one more and went to look for snakes anyway. We walked to a very cleared field with scattered small coffee plants. There they said they would search for snakes. One man found 2 tiny N. sebaea, while the other found a G. nasalis. Allison found a Geophis nasalis under trash and I found another of the new black frogs with red spots. It was under a large pile of leaves. There was a little boy who had great enthusiasm, but caught nothing. I gave him 20 pesos and told him to bring me a snake and quickly tried to forget about it. I moved off into a patch of coffee where there were large piles of