Karito, Dear 2007 Journal Junca El Volcán, Sanhuí, Depto. Alta Verapaz, Guatemala Aug. 19 We drove up to the cornfields above the Junca with our 2 guides from yesterday, Marcelino and Arnoldo, plus the local school teacher, Oscar. We hiked past the cornfield through some secondary forest to a beautiful area of primary forest with huge trees. We opened lots of logs starting at 09:30, but found nothing. There were no bromeliads to open in most of the areas we passed through. At about 11:00, we came to an area with more bromeliads, mostly small but some larger. The first small bromeliad Oscar opened had a Cryptotriton in it! This may be a new species - collected in 70's and provisionally assigned to C. versipax, but it is somewhat separated from Puebla. This was the only salamander we got, although we continued searching in bromeliads and logs until 15:00. I got a snake (Lepidodora?) in a bromeliad, and Carlos got an Eleutherodactylus and a Thoros. It rained lightly as we walked back to the car. Most of the forest here has been cut, with only the mountain tops being forested. The area where we were was given to the Universidad del Valle as a reserve. We even saw some cloud forest elements (tree ferns) at the highest point we walked to (~1480m elar). It didn't rain much at the Junca, so we didn't go out to search at night. We pressed specimens and a steady stream of animals were brought in by local people, including a Didron, an clitmantodes, some lepidophyums, and many, many Rufoscens (which we stopped buying).