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Genus OARISIMA Scudder 

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



powesheik Parker. 

 Paradopaea G. & S., Biol. Cent.-Am., Rhop. ii, 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. ^y<\\\^ ^ — ^ c/^^m 

 Fig. 21. 



Fig. 21. Oarisma garila lieakirt: 

 T^ - . a. Club of antenna, d. Neuration. 



Key to the species Jopaeodes aurantiaca Hew. b. Club 



of antenna, c. Palpus 



1. Under surface of secondaries with white 



veins on a dark ground before vein lb powesheik 



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 Eeakirt, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil, vi, 150, 1866. 

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

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

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

 Oarisma powesheik G. & S., (not Parker) Biol. Cent.-Am., Rhop. ii, 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. 0ARI83IA EDWARDSI 

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



