CYRESTIS .— P YKAMEIS. 
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above, the ferruginous markings at the aual angle and lobe of the hind wing more distinct, 
the latter with a prominent black spot in the middle." {de Niceville.) 
This species has been recorded by Pryer from Yamato and the Province of 
Satsuma, Japan ; it is also common in the Loochoo Islands. In Western 
China it occiu's plentifully throughout the summer. Both the white and 
oclii'eous forms are found in about equal numbers, in the same localities and 
at the same times, and are represented by both sexes, although the females 
seem to be much scarcer than the males. 
I have examined large numbers of Chinese specimens, but none of them 
appeared to differ in any way from Indian examples of the same species. 
According to de Niceville, the Indian distribution of C. thyodamas is as 
follows : — Himalayas, Assam, Khasi Hills, Cachar, Upper Tenasserim, Anda- 
man Isles, Bombay, and South India. 
C. thyodamas was accidentally included in the distribution table of my 
paper on the Hhopalocera of Japan and Corea as occurring in the latter 
country. 
In his remarks on this species (Rom. sur Lep. vi. p. 99) Dr. Staudinger 
seems to be very positive that it does not occur out of India. 
Genus PYEAMEIS. 
Pyrameis, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 33 (1816) ; Doubleclay^ Gea. Diuru. Lep. i. 
p. 202 (1849) ; de Niceville, Butt. Inrl. ii. p. 225 (1886). 
" Head of moderate width, hairy. 
Eyes nearly round, hairy. 
" Palpi porrect, slightly ascending, convergent, projecting fully half their length beyond the 
forehead, scaly, slightly hairy in front, more so on the sides and upper surface of the second 
joint. First joint subcylindric, much curved ; second joint more than three times as long 
as the first, subcylindric, stouter a little beyond the middle, then narrowed to the apex ; 
third joint less than half the length of the second, elongate-conic, the apex rather obtuse. 
" Antennce about three fourths the length of the body, rather slender, terminating in a short, 
somewhat pyriform club, of which the terminal joints taper to a point. 
* Thoeax oval, moderately stout, hairy ; ahdomen stout, about half the length of the inner margin 
of the hind wing. 
" Fore iving subtriangular, the apex more or less truncate ; the costal margin but little curved ; 
outer margin but three fourths the length of the costal, sinuate, emarginate ; inner margin 
slightly longer than the outer, straight, or slightly emarginate. Costal nervure stout, 
extending to the middle of the costa ; subcostal nervure slender, Ipng close to the costal ; 
