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Hesperid from Haiti 
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cies contained in the genus Poanes, where it would fall in 
the group comprising the former genus Paratrytone Dyar 
which was united with Poanes by Lindsey (University of 
Iowa Studies, ix, (4) , pp. 84, 85, 1921) . This section of the 
genus is represented in the North American fauna by 
aaroni Skinner and yehl Skinner, and in Mexico by rhexenor 
Godman, polyclea Godman, aphractoia Dyar and of these 
batesi is most nearly allied to the last four mentioned but is 
easily distinguished from them by the characters given in 
the above description, the green overscaling of the underside 
of the wings will alone separate it from any of the others. 
In addition, to date, none of the other species mentioned 
have been found in Haiti, the habitat of batesi. 
Professor Nathan Banks in forwarding the specimens of 
batesi to the writer supplied the following important and 
interesting information concerning the region from which 
they came ; he writes that the specimens from the La Selle 
Mountains were collected on the plateau of that range be- 
tween 6,000 and 7,400 feet elevation, mostly in open pine 
woods or along the edge of cloud-forest in the vicinity of 
the peaks known as Cayes Jacques and La Vesita. The sin- 
gle female taken by Dr. Darlington near Mt. Hotte was 
found at an elevation of about 5,000 feet and the locality is 
about one hundred miles from where the other specimens 
were taken, with much low country between. 
Batesi appears to be a species of the high altitudes and 
in this respect agrees with the Mexican species polyclea 
Godman and aphractoia Dyar, the type of the first men- 
tioned said to have come from 8,000 feet elevation and that 
of the second from 13,000 feet elevation. The North Ameri- 
can yehl seems to be a species of the low coastal areas al- 
though it does extend into Tennessee, but there are no al- 
titude records available to the writer for that part of its 
habitat. 
The figure of the male genitalia is taken from one of the 
paratypes from the La Selle Mountains. 
