Hants, Year 2010 Journal June 2 Estano de Flamaaya, San Luis Potosi and Tinguistongo, Hidalgo, Mexico Yesterday, I went to visit Los Pozos de Xilitla in the morning. Absolutely stunning, and seemed like great B. platydractyle habitat. Spent a while looking under rocks and a few logs, but it was pretty dry and I found only one Gracostor/ Eleutherodactylus (escaped). I spent most of afternoon searching for El Estano de Flamaaya, a C. maguipes locality. Sr. Flamaaya, a woman at the edge of town took me to a giant hole (actually 2) that she said was the only estano in the area (21.41804°N, 99.61039°W [+/-10], 684m elev.). I dropped a rock, which took 5 sec (=123m deep) to fall; I declined to enter. Drove to Huichito de Reyes to spend the night. This morning, drove up Hwy 105 to a forest of liquidambar, pine and other trees E of Tlanchinol (20.98480°N, 98.63402°W [+/-7m], 1472m elev.). I only spent a few minutes looking, as it was very dry, but it seemed to have potential for salamanders. Didn't see any bromeliads. Drove to Mdango and took a side road to Colhuecan through a nice mixed liquidambar forest (20.79527°N, 98.69608°W [+/-9m], 1831meter). Spent ~20 min searching but it was very dry- no bromeliads, but seemed good for salamanders. Finally, drove to Zacualtipan and went 6.8 Km on road to Tinguistongo. Spent ~1.5hr opening 13 bromeliads in pine-oak-liquidambar forest and got 2 adult and 1 juvenile Chiropterotriton. Also searched under logs but conditions were still pretty dry. Salamanders seemed pretty abundant in bromeliads, but there weren't many bromeliads. Drove back to OF since conditions didn't seem to warrant more searching- need to return after rains start.