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Genus OARISMA Scudder 

 Oarisma Scudder, Syst. Rev. 54, (75), 1872. Type Hesperia 



powesheik Parker. 

 Paradopaea G. & S., Biol. Cent.-Am., Rhop. n, 469, footnote, 1900. 



Palpi as in Ancyloxypha. Anten- 

 nae much less than one-half as long as 

 primaries; club enlongate obovoid, 

 blunt, as long or nearly as long as 

 shaft. Costa of primaries straight ex- 

 cept at base and apex ; outer margin 

 curved only opposite cell ; entire wing 

 trigonate; cell about three-fifths as 

 long as wing ; vein 5 near 4 at base ; 

 3 near end of cell ; 2 about as far from 

 3 as from base of wing, variable. Sec- 

 ondaries trigonate, all margins slight- 

 ly rounded and anal angle very 

 slightly lobed. Male without stigma. 



rig. £iX. j,.^ 21 Oarigma garita Reakirt : 



a. "Club of antenna, d. Neuration. 

 Keif to the Species Jopaeodes aurantia-ca Hew. b. Club 



J l of antenna, c. Palpus 



1. Under surface of secondaries with white 



veins on a dark ground before vein lb poivesheik 



Veins not much paler than ground color 2 



2. Upper surface bright yellow-fulvous edwardsi 



Upper surface fuscous, variably powdered with yellow-fulvous .. garita 



1. OARISMA GARITA 



Hesperia garita Reakirt, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil, vi, 150, 1866. 

 Thymelicus hylax Edw., Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. in, 274, 1871. 

 Paradopaea calega G. & S., Biol. Cent.-Am., Rhop. n, pi. 92, ff. 26-29, 1900. 

 Paradopaea garita G. & S., Biol. Cent.-Am., Rhop. n, pi. 92, ff. 23-24, 1900. 

 Oarisma powesheik G. & S., (not Parker) Biol. Cent.-Am., Rhop. n, 469, 



1900. 

 Holland, Butterfly Book 343, pi. xlvii, f. 3, 1898. 

 Wright, Butt. W. Coast pi. xxx, f. 408, 1905 (not lena Edw.) 

 Manitoba, Montana, Colorado, Idaho, Arizona; July. 

 Calega G. & S. looks in the figure as if it might be a good species but in 

 the text the authors refer it to garita. They also erroneously refer their 

 figures of garita to powesheik. 



2. OARISMA EDWARDSI 

 Thymelicus edwardsi Barnes, Can. Ent. xxix, 42, 1897. 



