26 INSECTS AFFECTING DOMESTIC ANIMALS. 
their transformations in moist places, under grass, etc., and perhaps 
even in tolerably dry situations. Otherwise it is difficult to account 
for the swarms of the adults in localities remote from water or iow land. 
Fig. 1.~ Culex pungens: a, female, from side; b, male, from above; c, front tarsus of same; d, middle; 
e, hind tarsus; jf, genitalia of same; g, scales from hind border of wing; h, scales from disk of 
wing—all enlarged (from Howard). 
The life history has been often repeated in works on natural history 
and it is unnecessary to give it in detail here. It may, however, be 
allowable to give a brief statement of the general course. 
