D. A. Gord 1987 journal Volcán Cacao, Prov. Guanacaste, Costa Rica 17 August quite dry - no epiphytes, + very little moss. It was windy and the vegetation was dry - we found nothing. Gave up + went to bed early. 18 August Breakfast at 600 then into field at 700. We walked along the trail from Casa Mengo to Casa Franke slowly, turning over logs + looking in buttress cavities along the way - most of the way there was too little moss to make it worth while looking in it, but at the highest point of the trail (1250m, at jet. If trail to top of Volcán Cacao), there was some + we found enough to look through - no logs. The only specimen collected on this walk (which took 2½ hrs) was an Elattoneurylus sayi which I found while looking leaf litter at the base of the trail- bank. The trail to Casa Franke climbs up steadily through the dry forest similar to that behind Casa Mengo to 1250m elev., it then goes through somewhat wetter forest, with a few more epiphytes for a while (starting with the 1250m summit) - it crosses 3 streams + then goes through a few hundred meters of secondary disturbed forest + finally opens onto open pasture just before reaching Casa Franke. The Casa, which we reached cca 9:30 was looked up but we poked around for a while + found a huge beetle under a log + collected it. (F saw a small frog but it escaped. We returned to Casa Mengo at a steady walk + made it in a little over an hour. After lunch we took it easy for a while + spent some time preserving specimens + writing field notes. About 3:30 we walked down to the stream below Casa Mengo on the trail to Finca (David) + poked around for a while but found no herps - collected a few guppy-like fishes,