Rarity: Star 2007 Journal May 3 Finca Placida de Margoth, Depto Jucapa, Guatemala We met Julio Nargas in the town of Las Delicias after breakfast and drove through the town of Espinillo, through Finca El Cedral and arrived at his finca, which is called Placida or Margoth. He remembered Eric Koford, who collected mammals and salamanders here in the 1970s. He sent a man who lives in the village of Moran, Rodrigo Morales Aparicio, with us to the spot where he said Koford collected salamanders. The area around the finca is mostly second growth forest or scrub, but Rodrigo cut a path uphill to an area with bigger trees, which appeared to be primary forest that had been selectively logged (perhaps). There were many broadleaf trees with a lot of Bromeliads and epiphytes and a lot of big tree ferns. We started cutting down bromeliads at 12:10 and worked our way uphill. I found a Cryptotriton auramineus in a bromeliad after a short time in a nice area of forest. It looked like the one we found on Cerro de los Monos (it has a yellow ventor) unlike the grey ventor of C. aerapagis. It was also extremely active and actually jumped when disturbed - I have never seen a salamander do this before. We continued uphill through some less good secondary forest, and then got to the start of what Rodrigo said into a huge stretch of primary forest uphill. Carlos found a big C. siobrainensis in a bromeliad here (CRVA 117). We continued uphill and got to an area with huge trees and many bromeliads. I found a small Bolitoglossa larvichi or galapensis (CRVA 118) in a bromeliad. We continued