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B. Stelfy
1988
Journal
Hotel, Tecpan, Dept. San Marcos?
12 July
by 9:40. To the right the trail climbs & splits
of ten basically staying along the ridge. I worked
for a solid 2 hours, peeling bark, lopping branches,
stumps, logs, stones, etc. - only got rostrata, it
not in great abundance. I finally got a couple of
Pseudos - maybe the Pseudoeryth sp. - inside a
rotten log. Also, there were a lot of Sceloporos
malachiticus, but I couldn't get a good series,
so I released the me I caught. Then I decided
to work back on the left of the saddle
to get more brunmate & gocheli for feeding
experiments. I worked the same trail, & at
the same pile of wood chips where I got
2 Thamipnis before, I got 2 more. These were
a mating pair - complete w/ 1 themipnis
inserted in the female. They stayed together
for several hours - the spines on that guy
really make him stick in her. I now had
strong nipetus to get more Pseudos. I got
a few in a rotten log, then dropped down
more into an open field. Here I only got
rostrata! below where I had caught Pseudos.
I figured I might as well grab a few
for feeding exp's, (about a dozen) then went
back to the saddle & down. We ate lunch
at the hotel, than went back to the coast.