Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 October 2008
1. Introduction. Let G be a Fuchsian group which acts on the unit disc Δ. A fundamental region D for G acting in Δ is a subset of Δ such that D is open and connected and each point of Δ is G-equivalent to exactly one point in D or at least one point in D̅ (the closure of D in Δ). Throughout this paper we consider only fundamental regions which are (hyperbolically) convex. Beardon has shown (2) that it is possible for a convex fundamental region to have certain undesirable properties. It can happen that a convex region is not locally finite, i.e. there exist points of Δ where infinitely many G images of D accumulate. For a domain D we denote by F the set of such points.