Field notes, v1600
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Seib, R. 1984 Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico 25 Oct. Woke up late again, had breakfast, swam at the pool until it clouded over, preserved animals. The clouds were ominous today. Although it has rained steadily everyday here in Tapachula and on the fincas, today's rain was more serious with major thunder and lightning storms and hours of rain. They had zero snakes at Monte Pila and I'm getting bored driving out there every day for the big nothing. At San Jeronimo they had 2 Adelphicos, 1 Dymobius, 1 Graphis, 1 N. diaclemata, 6. N. sebai, 3 P. elapoides, 1 Tantilla tayrae, 1 Microurus [with eleven widely-spaced body bands (not enough for nigrocinctus, but it's definitely not a latifasciata)] sp., 1 M. nigrocinctus. When the rain was mostly over with, around 17:45, we set up two more nets at the site we netted just two nights ago. One net was over the same trail where we did so well the other night. It only caught 2 Stenura & about 6 of Carollia & Glossophaga. The other net I placed in front of a trail at the far end of the clearing. It caught 1/2 dozen Carollia before dark. It continued to pull in Carollia & Glossophaga until 10:30 when we got 9