Ravitz, Leon 2012 Journal June 15 San Francisco Jumbled, Mpio. Jitla, Chiapas, Mexico (cont.) Newland rainforest, with more palms and fewer epiphytes. After we got down one car drove out while Erick, Daniel & I went to Alvaro Chirgana to talk to the comisariado. He was out of town, so we got the agente municipal to call a town meeting. Again, only two people spoke in our favor, and the community asked us never to return. This is sad, since I'm sure there is a lot more to be found in this forest. We drove on to Comitan to spend the night at Hospedaje Monteblanco (cheap, charming). It rained all afternoon, but we arrived too late to go out and look for anything. Cerro Mazatal, Mpio. Motozintla, Chiapas, Mexico June 17 Yesterday, we drove from Comitan to the top of Cerro Mazatal, stopping to drop off permits in Motozintla. Camped at the microwave towers after agreeing to pay the guard 100 pesos per day. Diana, Jorge, & I searched from ~22:00-22:30 along a road cut near camp but found nothing. Today, let everyone sleep in since people were still tired. Started searching in logs around 10:45 near camp in disturbed areas of forest or cattle. I got a Rhodinea buckleyana under a log. Jorge got two Psuedoemysia inside different logs. They are brown with some yellow on the tail and with a pale gular region; they look like P. galetii rather than P. lev, but probably correspond to a new species (one of two here?) according to my phylogeny. It was cloudy in the morning and started to rain around noon, becoming progressively colder and more rainy until we stopped searching at 13:40. Ate lunch, took photos, and waited out rain. At 16:40, we walked ~200m to a spot where I got a Bolitoglossa franklini nigriplaccosa under a rock along the road and a Plethodrylla hartwegi under a small pile of branches. It seems like P. hartwegi