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Seib,R.
1984
Comitan to Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico
23 Oct. dorsal surface. The Pseudoryceea were extremely difficult to come by. I worked for 3 hours alone in the forested areas opening logs and turning them and looking in stumps, etc. In comparison, the Bolitoglossa were easily found when I encountered a clearing on a slope with the small shrubs present. Kiki and Allison also found four Bolitoglossa. There were no road cuts mature enough to work, so I didn't get a chance to look for D. rostrata in that situation. We met back at the car at 1600 and drove back, looking for a better site to collect Pseudoryceea. We stopped at the junction to Peruen. Here there is an extremely wet forest with tremendous bromeliad development. It is way too steep to work the ground, so we opened bromeliads until dark. In this forest it rained drops onto us constantly. We found no herps, but it is excellent for Chiropts, Reeds, and Bolitoglossa. The height of the dry season would be an excellent time to collect in this forest which is extensive. There is no shortage of bromeliads either. Drove into Tapachula,