Toito; Dear 2007 Journal Sierra de Chucús, south of Retinal, Depto. Baja Verapaz, Guatemala July 28 Carlos had plans with his family today, so Ted and I decided to do a day trip to an area of the Sierra de Chucús, south of Retinal, that I thought looked interesting based on the map. We took CA-5 out of Guatemala City around 9:30 and drove through San Juan Sacatepequez north to Montufar, where the road became gravel - our map showed it as paved to Retinal. We spent hours driving on this slow road through scrub and dry forest. After 10 AM, we began to climb more, and we started seeing small bromeliads at 1600m. We stopped in an oak and pine forest shortly before the crest and found many large bromeliads. We searched from 13:30-14:15 and got 1 adult male and 1 subadult B. dutrae in 2 of the apexes. 20 bromeliads we opened. These animals look like B. helmruchi but have no orange or pink color on the underside of the tail, as is seen in B. helmruchi from Purulhá and the Sierra de las Minas. These may be the B. helmruchi or B. cuchumetana-like species collected at Santa Rosa Pass in the 70s. There were more bromeliads, but we continued up to the crest (almost 2000m elev.) and down the N side, where we found a dirt road leading W from the main road. We cut bromeliads in a patch of forest (pine + oak) 1.3km from the main road and found 2 more individuals of the same species from 15:00-15:45. We then searched in some great-looking roadbanks from here to the main road from 16:00-16:30, hoping to find a B. meliana, but we had no luck. I