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Tf the term vertex is used, in the broad sense, to indicate the gen- 

 this sense alone. • -i7;„ i f Fio- 3 \ Fio- 4, H., etc., and 



iiiiiipii! 



The t'enn parietalia, or par.eta ^,'=^2,°";,;^ ^^1 tS f Si 

 moi-pholodsts to the region pa * 't-'^l' ^' '^V'=*;-' ,,*l"^i" anium'' are 



uoDer recrion of the head including the tions as was ^ 



uppei i^iuii /iQOQ\ who introduced the term, in lact, 



Strauss-Duerckheim (1928), ^^ho " |i<^>^^! • ^^ "epicran- 



comparative morphology haye discarded it "f^"' "If, VeU^en the 

 parietal region, for that T'--'^-P^^^^i:^lt,TC;M,.g.o< 

 f:b*dTin°I?'fLXeSjwhir;r:\rt;d ahoye^he compound 

 eyes, are called the temples or tempora. 

 ^ An infolding of the head capsule con igumis ^o e^™^^;^^^ ^ 

 pound eyes forins the so-called occular f l^^'^Jf;^, J^^^^^.f,^^^^^^^^ the 



seen in aii interior view of the head, ^^?^^ ^f^^/f^^re Ja led ?he or- 

 exterior. The external areas surrounding ^l^^f^^^^Xilil regions, 

 bits: and these are sometimes referred ^ .^^ *^f^ Pf ^eVrbits as the 

 Loew (186-2, p. xiii) refers to the ^^^^^^^^ he posterior or 

 anterior or facial orbits, the inferior o ge at oibits t p ^^^^.^^^ 

 occipital orbits, the superior or vertical ^^^^f ^' ^^^'^.^^^^le .enovertical 

 The frontal orbits correspond m a g.^^;"^! \\^,,^^J,1 ^fates previ- 

 plates. and the facial orbits correspond to the paraiaciai i i 



ouslv described, etc. anvmnnds each of the an- 



'In some Diptera, an antenna! s^l^^-^^e fi ounds eac^ ^^^^^ 



tennal sockets, but it is not readdy seen m mo.t Uiptera 



