Jan.3 ... to Esquipulas, and then turned E near the rest and took a road up to the towers. We opened ~ 10 big bromeliads near the towers. This area is mostly planted cypress, but there is some nice forest left on the very steep northern slope. We went down and opened ~ 6 big bromeliads from a dead tree in 2° forest; Carlos got a Selaprus under bark. As it was getting dark, we stopped and opened ~ 15 bromeliads of all sizes from a few trees near the road in an area with liquidambar and other broadleaf species, which seemed to be all secondary forest. Carlos got a big male Bolitoglossa heirensis, and I got a juvenile one out of a huge bromeliad. We had to stop opening bromeliads because it was dark, so we drove back to El Rio Hondo. Guetattepeque seems like it would be worth another trip; it has lots of bromeliads and an isolated area of humid or wet montane forest on top. Jan.4 Corro Negro Norte, Sierra de Cardel, Depto. Chiquimal, Guatemala Jose Monzon, an entomologist associated with la Universidad del Valle, met us for breakfast at 06:30, and then we drove to Morales, where our lost bag awaited us. We drove through a gate into land of a logging company whose owner Jose knows. The lower area has been totally cut and the road was very muddy, since it was still raining. We soon began to climb