Jan 21 Barillas area, Depto. Huehuetenango, Guatemala We searched the Barillas area to find a contact zone between B. rufescens and B. "caribe", a new species we are describing. There is a specimen of B. "caribe" from somewhere near Finca Chiltac, but the other ones I've sequenced are all B. rufescens. We drove from Barillas on the road to the Obcán and stopped in a banana and coffee plantation just outside of town. We searched for 1 hr (10:00-11:00), mostly in bananas but also under logs. I opened 2 bromeliads and got a B. rufescens (impossible to tell from B. "caribe"); the others got 5 more and 2 Dralisea laudinii, all in bananas. We drove on, trying to find a second site in the lowlands, but found no more bananas. We opened ~10 big bromeliads from an isolated tree in a cow pasture on Rancho Emilia, right before the bridge over the first river along the highway. Found only a bird egg and a scorpion (saw an Orbis). All land here has been converted to pasture, with some forest on steep hillsides. Headed back towards Barillas and turned off at Aldea La Cuapecin. Continued through Santa María Yolhuitz and downhill to El Valle, where we looked in 2005. We searched in 2 patches of bananas for 45-50 min total and found 7 B. rufescens and 5 D. laudinii (kept 3), all in bananas. Couldn't find another site before dark so we headed back to Barillas to fix today's specimens. The day was fairly warm and clear.