MIXOCERA. By L. B. Pbout. 
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C. rufocellata Mab., described as a Eucrosies, is darker, but also of a very blue green, and is distinguished rufocellaiu. 
by the large blackish, white-centred and red-ringed cell-si)ot of the hindwing. Madagascar. 
C. subsimplex Front (4 k). Yellower green than stillala, the red spots which accompany the lines Hulmniplcj: 
absent or very slight, in any case not ringed with white. Madagascar (type) and Kikuyu Escarpment. — intensa hdcnsa. 
Front (4i) is a rather deeply coloured form from the Comoros, with the cell-dots small and no trace of 
red dots accompanying the lines. 
C. simplex Warr. (4 i). Generally larger, still brighter green and without the red terminal line. Kikuyu simplex. 
Escarpment and ( ?) Mount Mlanje, Xyasaland. 
C. fluorlta Front (2 i). At least as large as sim'plex probably nearly related thereto. Cell-dot of forewing fluoritu. 
dark-green, at most with only a slight admixture of black scales, that of the hindwing a little less weak; the 
white lines not broken into spots or dots, but formed of rather deep lunules. Sao Thome. 
C. sladeni Front (= laesaria Fryer, nec Walk.). Smaller than simplex. Pectinations coarser, deeper sladeni. 
reddish. Forewing with apex less pointed, costal edge redder, postmedian line almost obsolete, but vdth the 
red dot which accompanies it between the 3rd radial and 1st median larger and brighter, on the hind wing 
sometimes an additional (but minute) red dot at the 1st radial. Seychelles. 
C. germana Front. Smaller than simplex (14—18 mm), palpus less long, costal margin of forewing ycrmana. 
white or whitish, white lines rather less slender than in the allies, the redtiish spots which accompany them 
pale or obsolete, no fuscous cell-dots, the fringes green (in simplex yellow). Natal (type) and Cape Colony. 
C. apicata Warr. (= fuscipuncta Warr.) differs from the rest of the genus in having the $ antenna apicata. 
pectinate, with long branches. Otherwise extremely similar to simp)lex, but with rather stronger white lines 
and with a reddish spot at the apex and vestiges of a reddish line on each side of this. Natal and the Cape. 
C. capensis Warr. comes between simplex and germana in size but is entirely different in colour, being cupensis. 
the darkest blue-green Gomostolopsis (unless perhaps rufocellata), with red face, ochreous costal edge and almost 
markingless wings, only a wavy postmedian line being faintly traceable. Cape (type) and Natal. 
C. coerulea Warr. (4i). Rather smaller and narrower-winged than simplex and of a pale blue instead coendea. 
of apple-green colour. Fringes light cream-buff (in capensis green). Kenya Colony. 
C. leuconeura sp. n. 23 mm. Dark bluish glaucous (not so blue as in coernlea), the face dark, the abdomen leuconeura. 
beneath whitish. Forewing at apex and hindwing at torniis rather acute; veins finely white; cell-dot minute, 
black; postmedian line dentate, inbent at fold. Reunion, 25 April 1922 (G. F. Leigh), type $ in Mus. Tring. 
74. Genus: Mixocera Warr. 
Palpus short. Tongue slight. Antenna variable. Hindtibia with terminal spurs only. V/ings smoothly 
scaled; distal margins smooth; fore wing with 1st sidicostal arising near the end of the cell or shortly stalked, 
sometimes running into the costal, hindwing with costal touching the cell near the base only, both wings with 
the 1st median shortly stalked with, or arising close to, the 3rd radial. A small group of African and Indo- 
Australian moths, of very uniform facies, the forewing of a delicate pale blue-green (extremely liable to fade), 
with one or two nearly straight white lines, the hindwing concolorous or whiter, sometimes wholly white. The 
only pectinate species is Australian. 
A. Antenna of cJ simply ciliated ( Thelycera Front). 
M. xanthostephana Front (4 k). Generally larger than the other species, particularly in the $. The xanthoste- 
single white line of the forewing is variable in position but always oblique, generally slender. Flindwing white. phana 
Possibly a form of the following. Transvaal (type). Natal, Rhodesia, Uganda and Kenya. 
M. hemithales Front has the white line of the forewing broader and less oblique, the ground-colour hemithcdes. 
perhaps paler. Kenya Colony, the type from Fort Hall, at an altitude of about 4000 feet; ? Uganda. 
M. obliqua B.-Bakr., founded on a single d' from N’Dalla Tando, Angola, has the antennal cihation obliqua. 
perhaps a little longer than in viridans and is of a somewhat more greyish green, with the jiostmedian line rather 
more oblique, on the forewing tapering anteriorly, on the hindwing rather broad, more proximal than in 
viridans-, antemedian of forewing present, but extremely fine. 
M. viridans Front (4 k) differs from the first two species chiefly in its green hindwing, with the line viridans. 
of the forewing continued; from section B in the G antennal structure and generally in the slenderer postmedian 
line and obsolete antemedian. S. Rhodesia (type) and throughout a great part of Africa, reaching Gambia in 
the west and Natal in the south. Possibly this, and not Ghlorissa attenuata, as hitherto determined, may have 
been the “lodis reductata” of Walker, of which the type is lost. 
