Rants, Sean 2008 Journal March 29 Area north of Pueblo Nuevo, Distabucan, Chiapas, Mexico (cont.) ... The messy bank where the holotype was collected is still there, and Fed says it looks just like it did the last time he was here. There are some older-looking trees on the slopes above but no bromeliads in sight. We left and turned W on a side road just N (towards Rayon) from this spot; it was also heavily deforested here, but some trees seem to have been left on the steep slopes and hilltops. Fed dropped me off and returned to Tapilula to get the flashlights while I opseal bromeliads in isolated trees in a mostly cleared cattle pasture from 16:50-18:00. I opened about 20 big bromeliads and found 2 B. reflexens and 12 Electrhyde. (17.19193N, 92.82756 W [WGS84], 16 mase., 17:30m elev.) Finally, we returned to the type locality to look for Cryptotriton. We saw many Electrhyde and Moxas (collected 11), but no salamanders. I was dry except near the waterfall from the small reservoir and on the mossy wall near the road where the holotype was found. We searched from 18:30-20:00, and then decided to call it quits, since it was so dry. The weather today was warm and sunny in the morning (and cooler and damply in the afternoon). It was a little hard for me to work today, since I think I may have cracked a rib (a re-cracked, if it's the same one) hurt searching for Hydromantes in 2005) while climbing trees in El Triunfo. It has been hard to use the branched cutter, and hurts when I laugh or cough.