NATURAL HISTORY 
2 m 
MOSCHETO. 
This curious tribe are very numerous in 
low and marshy places, and exceedingly 
troublesome both to men and beasts. They 
are furnished with a fleam or lancet, with 
which they cut our small veins and arteries, 
in order to cxtruct blood. Their bite is 
attended with some degree of pain, and 
is sometimes succeeded by very unpleasant 
swellings. The Moscheto drops its eggs 
into the water, where they remain floating 
upon the surface till hatched ; when the 
grubs force themselves to the bottom, where 
they continue till they undergo another 
transformation, and become winged insects. 
