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Hulsroy
I have had some awful nights under a tarp with being bitten, once in france sharing with @Hulsroy. I sinched my bag down as tight as i could round my face, rolled my wooly hat as low as i could go, and then covered my remaining exposed face with my hand. Woke up with zero bites on my face but 15 on my hand...
The thing about a tarp for me is its versility, @platypus and I have used one in front of a fire to bounce the heat back at us on a dry night, but also used one to create a low and tight wind proof shelter when, in a ditch (which would have been too narrow for a tent prob), on the side of a bare hillside (which, btw should have been a forest, but had had been logged days before!)
all that being said, I do like a tent a lot and if i was on a longer trip I would use one.