DIPTERAL

(Yunanca köken — orijinale bakınız.) In Architecture, a temple which had a double* range of columns on each of its flanks. Dl'PTERANS, Diptera. (Yunanca köken — orijinale bakınız.) An order of insects having for their main and most conspicuous character two wings only corresponding to the anterior pair, and two short clubbed appendages, called haltcres or balancers, and which seem to be the rudiments of the posterior pair in four-winged insects. The Dipterans are also distinguished by having the mouth m [s. 361]