  The long-standing issue of the nature of the critical line of lattice QCD
with the Wilson quark action at finite-temperatures, defined to be the line of
vanishing pion screening mass, and its relation to the line of
finite-temperature chiral tansition is examined. Analytical and numerical
evidence are presented that the critical line forms a cusp at a finite gauge
coupling, and the line of chiral transition runs past the tip of the cusp
without touching the critical line. Implications on the continuum limit and the
flavor dependence of chiral transition are discussed.
