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than the head. The anterior wings are very long and narrow, being in length nearly three times their breadth. 
The wings are dark and almost without markings. 
Ablabia pratana (the Dotted Drab T, No. 9). The Caterpillar of this species is unknown. The perfect 
Moth appears in July and August, and is very common. It is also very widely dispersed, and may be taken almost 
everywhere from Dover to Edinburgh. The slight and imperfect markings of the wings vary very much both in 
number and intensity. 
The genus Tortricodes. The palpi of the insects assigned to this genus are short and pointing downwards. 
The anterior wings are of long proportion like those of the last genus, and generally of obscure colour, and have 
very indistinct markings, or none at all. 
Tortricodes hyenana (the Clouded Winter T, No. 10), The Caterpillar of this obscure species is unknown. 
The perfect Moth appears in the early spring in woods, but is not common, 
