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Chotard. This stream flows south, and cannot be the 
north-flowing Riviere Blanche of the map. 3 We used Wet- 
more’s actual camp site ( l . c., Plate 9). Ground collecting 
in the wet cloud forest was exceedingly good, but the pine 
forest, under which the ground cover had been burned, 
was barren. 
Back at Port-au-Prince, we found ourselves unable to 
afford further auto travel, and Dr. Bates was forced to 
leave for Panama. After several days of delay, during 
which, through the great kindness of Dr. H. D. Barker, I 
was able to make auto trips to about 2,000 ft. in the foot- 
hills of the La Selle massif above Port-au-Prince (October 
2), to the Riviere Froide about 6 miles south of the city 
(October 3), and to Poste Terre Rouge, 2,000 ft., in the 
mountains just north of the Cul de Sac (October 5), I left 
by public bus for Aux Cayes, on the southwestern penin- 
sula of Haiti. From Aux Cayes I hired a car inland to 
Camp Perrin, which I reached October 8. Two days suf- 
ficed to pacify the local authorities and hire porters, and 
the next 16 days were spent on foot in the maze of wet 
ranges which constitute the Massif de la Hotte. Our route 
lay first north from Camp Perrin along the narrow, new 
road, impassable for cars in rainy weather, which crosses 
the foothills toward Jeremie, then west by vile foot trails, 
and finally north to Desbarriere (about 4,000 ft.), on a 
spur which curves down first north and then west from 
the northern slope of La Hotte itself. From Desbarriere, 
October 13, with a local man as guide, I ascended the ridge 
to above Roche Croix (a prominent rock marked with a 
rude natural cross), to about 5,000 ft., and found, beside 
new beetles, a new genus of snake and a new lizard of a 
genus previously known only from Jamaica. Further ad- 
vance by way of the long ridge proved impracticable — the 
ground was covered with treacherous limestone forma- 
tions hidden under deep moss and bracken — so we packed 
and moved from Desbarriere down a thousand feet or so 
to Tardieu (pronounced more like “Targi” by the inhabi- 
tants) in the valley of the turbulent Riviere Tardieu, be- 
3 We used the Carte de la Republique d’ Haiti, issued by the Direc- 
tion Generale des Travaux Publics , Port-au-Prince, 1928. 
