Honto, Dean 2005 Journal Nov. 3 Finica la Cusloda, road from San Marcos to San Rafael and 1 M. moreleti, Pie de la Costa, Depto. San Marcos, Guatemala (cont) We tried to walk down into the primary forest, but the slope became extremely steep going down towards a river between us and Volcan Tajumulco and all the bromeliads were high up in huge trees. We left and [illegible] drive up the dirt road towards the highway less than 1km to a spot with a large overhanging tree with many big bromeliads, Ernesto climbed up and cut them down and we looked in them, but were surprised to find nothing. We took down more bromeliads in the area (perhaps 30 total) but still found no salamanders. We stopped one more at the entrance to the finca along the highway and cut down ~10 big bromeliads, without success. We drove on to Buena Vista, where Jim Dyck had gotten some young women to collect hundreds of salamanders for him in the 70s. They are now old but remembered him (as "Jim") and offered to collect for us. We left some bags with them and some kids and drove 2.1 Km E of Buena Vista to a roadcut. I found 1 B. merioi in about 15 min of digging in the bank, much of which had collapsed in recent landslides (14.9°4'316"N, 91.83871°W [WG584, 6 m acc.], 2497m elev.). We left some bags with the kids from a nearby house and drove back to San Marcos.