Sept 3 '74, Took the bus this morning to 1 km N of Paguix up on the Sierra de los Cuchamatanes at 23,000 m elev. I walked a canyon bottom for a while but, though the ground was moist, there was no open water, and no salamanders. It is an open rocky situation with occasional juniperish trees and many large agaves. I collected two male rock lizards there (Uvery Sceloporus) These animals are brilliant iridescent green with similarly bright blue tails and darker blue vents and orange chins with black neck patch. Then I caught a ride back with a Dutch guy whose who, as it turned out, ran a finca for a Dutch drug company growing kardenaka, coffee, quinine, etc. He offered me a place to stay there, 25 km. beyond Ramllas, which I readily accepted. So as we drove through San Juan we stopped at the comedor where I had been staying and picked up my stuff (my bill for 3 days food, drink, bed was $5.91) and drove six more hours to the finca. He also told me that there was a guy from Belize collecting snakes and butterflies at the finca for some professor in Mexico. The finca sits right on the edge of the rims, right out the window they drop of into the flats which continue into Yucatan and Petén. The house itself is at 1,100 m. elev., but the finca rises to perhaps 1,800 m. The forest is very lush, big tree ferns all over the place and much uncult forest. The way to get to the finca is to