PSYCHE 
VOL. XLVI JUNE -SEPTEMBER, 1939 Nos. 2-3 
NOTES ON BUTTERFLIES FROM HISPANIOLA 
By Marston Bates 
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass. 
The island of Hispaniola, broken into many life zones 
and habitats by its lofty mountain ranges, presents the most 
interesting — and least known — fauna of any island in the 
West Indies. Sharpe (1898) and Hall (1925) have given 
lists of butterflies from the island, the latter enumerating 
139 species. The Hispaniolan butterfly fauna is surely as 
large as that of Cuba and perhaps larger (159 species are 
now known from Cuba: Bates, 1935; 1936) and almost any 
collection from the island includes species not previously 
known from there. The Museum of Comparative Zoology 
and the American Museum of Natural History now have 
fairly extensive collections from Hispaniola, and a worth- 
while study of the butterfly fauna could be made on the 
basis of this material. Since, however, there is little likeli- 
hood that any such study will be made in the near future, 
it seems best to publish the following notes on certain par- 
ticularly interesting species. 
The best account of the zoogeography of the island seems 
to be that of Wetmore and Swales (1931) and most of the 
localities mentioned in the present paper can be found on 
their map. 
The nomenclature and sequence used in the present paper 
conforms with that of my “Butterflies of Cuba” (Bates, 
1935). 
Eurema dina (Poey) 
There seem to be two species of Eurema in Hispaniola 
belonging to the dina complex: one related to the Cuban 
