B.Shaffer 1976. Journal Mexico: Oaxaca, Near Vista Hermosa. 8 Feb. Perhaps 18" long, as a strongly keeled tail. The area was is about a [illegible] clearing of grass. Turning all other stones, etc. gave us nothing. However, that night on a road break I got a leptodactylid w/ a bright orange dorsal stripe - sitting on a small ledge on the vertical wall. We drove on about another 6 km. to the next stop, a wet pine forest. This is just past the actual rainforest, & into drier pine- however it still has some bromeliads. I'm went in to the woods to look for Thorius, but got none. I caught 1 thorus on the roadside under a cement block- it was very dry. Also got 6 frogs under small rocks, & 1 Barisia under a large rock. I turned about 100 rocks to get the 6 frogs - they were fairly evenly spaced under dry, roadside stones. There were at least 2 spp. one has a reddish dorsal color & a distinct to indistinct cream triangle on the head; the other is black + white mottled. We went to Machin for dinner where there is an excellent, I somewhat simple, restaurant then went night driving. We went first to the Exilobas locality, when I got the frog. Then we went on to 52 km. W. Guelatao to a nice red-clay road bank.