Annals of the Transvaal Museum 
211 
just beyond middle of free part of 8; io from middle of areole; n from upper 
median at about frd, somewhat curved towards vein io at areole, but not 
touching it; 12 parallel to costa. 
Hind wing broad, nearly semicircular; costa somewhat excurved at middle; 
apex well rounded; termen very oblique and well rounded; tornus rounded; 
inner margin straight; 1 a and 1 b straight; 2 from lower median a little beyond 
middle; 3 and 4 from a point at lower angle; 5 from above middle of disco- 
cellulars and weak; discocellulars very weak, erect; 6 and 7 very shortly 
stalked and from upper angle; 8 parallel and approximated to upper median 
from base to beyond middle, then towards near apex; frenulum consisting of 
two bristles only. I have only seen $s, and at first thought the specimens 
to belong to the genus Gavgetta, but the differences given by Holland between 
Scrancia and Gavgetta are all found in my specimens. Besides some of them 
come from the same collection (E. L. Clark’s) and the same locality as the type 
specimens of Hampson’s 5 . stictica, and they all agree well with the description 
of this species. So I have no doubt, that my identification is correct, though 
the description given by Holland is very slender, even with the additional 
description of Gavgetta given in Hampson’s Moths of India. Sir George Hamp- 
son here divides the genus Gavgetta into three sections, two of which have 
pectinated antennae, as given by Holland for Scvancia, and one of these 
sections has the name Thacona, treated as a synonym of Gavgetta. As Hampson 
recognises the genus Scvancia in 1910 as a genus and not as a section or sub- 
genus for the two South African species, there are no doubt other differences 
which I cannot make out from the descriptions. Five species are recorded from 
Africa, two of which occur in South Africa. 
1 a. Head and thorax brown, mixed with grey; ground colour of fore wing 
light brownish-grey; discoidal striga black, defined by ground 
colour .......... stictica 
b. Head black; thorax and ground colour of fore wing fuscous-brown; 
whitish discoidal striga defined by black and with ochreous beyond 
and before it ........ atrifrons 
Scrancia Stictica. 
(PL V, fig. 15; PL VIII, figs. 6-13.) 
Scrancia stictica Hmpsn. A.M.N.H. 8. v. p. 480 (1910). 
I have one fine $ from Umtali (S. Rhodesia), 9. 1. T8 (Janse), which 
is more grey than the Natal specimen; all Natal specimens I have seen are 
more brownish-grey; 3 specimens in my collection from Durban caught in 
March (E. L. Clark). 
Scrancia Atrifrons. 
Scrancia atrifrons Hmpsn. A.M.N.H. 8. v. p. 481 (1910). 
I have one $ in my collection which I think belongs here, though it has 
white points on veins 1 b to 6, which interrupt the otherwise continuous fine 
black terminal line, and though it has some whitish scaling before antemedial 
and beyond postmedial lines, all characters which are not mentioned in the 
description. It is also larger, 40 mm. instead of 30 mm. The other characters, 
however, correspond so well with the description that I prefer to keep it 
provisionally here, instead of describing it as new. 
Caught at Salisbury on 27. 12. 17. (Janse). 
