D. A. Good 1980 Journal Mexico City D.F. to Puerto Arieta, Chiapas 10 December Cont' known of. However, due to Mexico City traffic and heavy fog in the mountains, we did not arrive there until dusk when it was too late to efficiently set out traps. We therefore decided to push on to Duke's most important collecting site in Chiapas. We drove to Puerto Arieta, Chiapas where Duke knew a fellow who might give us some information and arrived ca. 0200 on 11 December. The route was as follows: Rte 190 from Mexico City to Puebla, Puebla, then Rte 150 to La Tinajera, Veracruz, then S on road past Tixtla Blanca, Veracruz to Ciudad Aleman, Ver., then S to Tuxtla, Oaxaca and E to Palomas, Oaxaca, then S on Rte 185 to La Ventosa, Oax, then E on Rte 190 to Tapachula, Oax., then E on Rte 200 to Tonala, Chiapas + finally S to Puerto Arieta. We spent what was left of the night on the beach there. Lowland Chiapas (for specific localities see below) 11 December Up. 0600 and found Duke's acquaintance Alvarado Gonzalez. We talked with him for a while (he gave us little useful info- since he was unfamiliar with the areas we wanted to go to). We then had breakfast + left Puerto Arieta ca. 0830 and drove E along Rte 200 to Tapachula, Chiapas where we turned north into the mountains on a back road to Nuevo Aleman since it seemed to be the most likely route to an old collecting site for Heteronyms at Linalate. However, when we got to Nuevo Alemania, we found that there