Field notes, v1609
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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.