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DURHAM ARGUS. 
Polyommatus Salmacis. 
PLATE XXXIV. Figs. ‘2. and 3. 
Polyommatus Salmacis, Stephens. 
Silky brown above, with a macular posterior 
band of orange-red on all the wings, somewhat ob- 
solete in the male, ahd a white spot on the disk of 
the primary wings, which, however, is occasionally 
wanting in both sexes, but especially in the female. 
The fringe is white, slightly variegated with brown 
at the base. The colour of the under side is grey- 
ish-brown, the anterior wings with a discoidal white 
spot, beyond this a curved band of similar spots, 
with a minute dusky pupil, succeeded by a baud of 
orange spots, bounded on both sides by a dusky 
crescent, surmounted with white, the outer margin 
defined by a dusky line : the hinder wings have a 
similar marginal band, several scattered white spots 
towards the base, a larger one near the centre, and 
a very ii regular row behind the middle, with a broad 
white centra] patch connecting it with the yellow 
band. Most of these spots have a minute dusky 
pupil in the male, but greatly more conspicuous in 
the female. 
