Rancher, Susan 2010 Journal Aug. 3 Rancho El Cielo, Reserva de la Biosfera El Cielo, Tamaulipas, Mexico. We spent a long time this morning waiting for the reserve director, Jean Louis, and arranging for a truck to take us to El Rancho El Cielo. Around 11:30, we finally left; it took us ~1.5hr to arrive at Rancho. Susan found a P. cephalica under a log as soon as we stopped, and I got another under a fallen branch amongst the ranch buildings. This ranch is a field station for a university in Texas and has very restricted access; the buildings and grounds are really beautiful. Around 14:00, Jean Louis led us to "La Cueva de la Salamandra", a fairly small cave with a large entrance. We saw only 1 P. scandens inside, and a smaller, drier nearby cave had more. We walked across the ranch to La Cueva de Cristal, which had a smaller, steeper entrance leading to a very big room with spectacular (though vandalized) rock formations. We saw 7 P. scandens on the cave walls and ceiling, but only collected 1. We then walked along the western limit of the property and opened 18-20 bromeliads in podocarp-liquidambar forest. We got 9 Chiropterotritia, including 2 adults from 1 bromeliad. All were small, and we are not sure if they are C. oracens, C. multidentatus or both. Susan later got one near the ranch buildings in a fallen bromeliad. Saw 2 Rana in a spring (Ojos Encantados) - seems like a strange place for them. Went to 1 more cave but the entrance was dangerous so we stopped searching (~18:45-19:00). Tom + Susan went out for ~20 min around 21:00 and found a P. cephalica crawling across the grass amidst the buildings, despite the fact that it hasn't rained in 4 days and was rather dry. I searched from ~22:30- 22:50 but found nothing.