2.A.Good 1987 Journal San José, Costa Rica 10 August Spent the morning with DBW getting liquid nitrogen in Tres Rios + going to the OTS Office and the University to see Pedro León. Back to hotel ca. noon. Lunch and then DBW, CF and Dwight Lawson (who happened to walk by outside the restaurant where we ate lunch) went to Tapanti while I stayed behind and tossed and preserved the accumulated specimens (see catalogue). This table from ca. 1:30 PM to 8:00 PM. Then something to eat + relaxed the rest of the evening. DBW +KF returned from Tapanti ca. 8:45. Tapanti area, Prov. Cartago, Costa Rica 11 August After breakfast + arranging for a 4-wheel drive car for tomorrow, we drove to the Refugio Nacional Tapanti, where several of the people from MVZ had spent some time last year and where CF+DBW had lived such bad luck yesterday (3 sets of smoke eggs - see catalogue - nothing else). We arrived at Tapanti ca 9:30 and drove immediately to the Nototriton pisador site from last year (see catalogue for locality). We pulled moss off the trunks for a couple of hours and found 6 Nototriton, a portable clutch of Nototriton eggs, a clutch of frog (Eleutherodactylus) eggs and a 4 B. bitigrossa deminuta (?) with eggs!!! It was apparent that the salamanders were found under moss on the trunks to a considerable height - we collected to ca. 18 ft up in small trees I cut down with my machete. More complete notes on the salamanders were made by DB.W. (see his note). At about mid-day we drove farther up into the refuge and looked in a few neocleide bromeliads for Hylex zeteki but found nothing. Then