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IT is stated in H. N. Humphrey's work on “British Butterflies,” that the Dark Argus Butterfly appears in July, and has only been found in the neighbourhood of Durham and Newcastle, and seldom above half a mile from the sea. When in May I was at Ashmore, which is on the borders of Dorset and Wilts, I took some butterflies answering exactly to the description of the Dark Argus in Mr. Humphrey's book; so would you kindly inform me whether this is a new locality, and whether there are two broods, the first in May and the second in July, as is the case with several of family, as would appear from the above statements? I identify the species with his Dark Argus by the following peculiarities, viz.: (1) an obscure black spot near centre of fore-wings; (2) no black spots in the orange ocelli in fore-wings, the hind-wings containing these black spots as in the Brown Argus.
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HODGKIN, J. The Dark Argus Butterfly. Nature 12, 187–188 (1875). https://doi.org/10.1038/012187d0
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