Contents

Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Volume 76, 1946-47, Unnumbered Page

Contents Astronomy. Pages Coordinates of the 9-in. Refracting Telescope at the Carter Observatory, and Nearby Stations. By I. L. Thomsen 61–65 Botany. The Moss Flora of the Arthur Pass National Park. By William Martin 37–57 List of Orchid Species Common to Australia and New Zealand. By Edwin D. Hatch 58–60 Note on a New Species of Red Alga, Lenormandia coronata. By Victor W. Lindauer and William A. Setchell 66, 67 New Zealand Hepaticae (Liverworts). V. By E. Amy Hodgson 68–86 Geographic Range and Internal Distribution of the Mosses Indigenous to New Zealand. By William Martin 162–184 Notes on the Indigenous Vegetation at the Head of the Maruia River and Ada Pass, with Lists of Species. By W. B. Brockie 255–261 A Study of Entelea arborescens R. Br. (“Whau”). By L. H. Millener 267–288 The New Zealand Forms of Prasophyllum R. Br. By Edwin D. Hatch 289–293 An Annotated List of the Brown Scaweeds, Phacophyceae, of New Zealand. By Victor W. Lindauer 542–566 Descriptions of New Species of Scirpus. By Varner J. Cook 567–571 The New Zealand Forms of Acianthus R. Br. By Edwin D. Hatch 572–573 The New Zealand Forms of Corybas Salisb. By Edwin D. Hatch 574–580 The Growth of a Species of the Genus Lilacopsis in Fresh-water Reservoirs near Wellington. By Greta B. Stevenson 581–588 Notes on New Zealand Floristic Botany. Including Description of New Species, etc. No. 8. By H. H. Allan 589–596 Chemistry. The Vapour Pressures of Perchloric Acid Solutions at 25°. By R. A. Robinson and O. J. Baker 250–254 The Vapour Pressures of Potassium Ferricyanide and Thorium Nitrate Solutions at 25°. By R. A. Robinson and Barbara J. Levien 295–299 The Occurrence of Methyl Salicylate in a Fern, Asplenium lamprophyllum. By Lindsay H. Briggs and William I. Taylor 597

Geology. The Basic Igneous Rocks of Eastern Otago and their Tectonic Environment. Part 5. By W. N. Benson 1–36 Geology of Fox River Headwaters, Brighton Survey District, South-West Nelson. By H. W. Wellman 211–236 Origin of Piedmontite-bearing Quartz-Muscovite-Schists of North-West Otago. By Francis J. Turner 246–249 Standard Sections and Subdivisions of the Castlecliffian and Nukumaruan Stages in the New Zealand Pliocene. By C. A. Fleming 300–326 Maitai-Hokonui Unconformity. By H. W. Wellman and R. W. Willett 353–357 Contributions to the Mineralogy of New Zealand. Part 2. By C. Osborne Hutton 358–361 Petrofabric Analyses of Two Quartz-mica-piedmontite Schists from North-West Otago. By J. B. Mackie 362–368 The Alpine Fault of the South Island of New Zealand from the Air. By C. A. Cotton 369–372 Contributions to the Mineralogy of New Zealand. Part 3. By C. Osborne Hutton 481–491 Oceanography. Westport Harbour. By F. W. Furkert 373–402 Palaeontology. Notes on Some Neognathous Bird Bone from the Early Tertiary of New Zealand. By B. J. Marples 132–134 The Microfaunas of the Oxford Chalk and Eyre River Beds. By H. J. Finlay 237–245 A New Diatom from the Oamaru Diatomite. By Frederick S. C. Reed 294 The Foraminiferal Evidence for Tertiary Trans-Tasman Correlation. By H. J. Finlay 327–352 Tertiary Mollusca from Hokianga District, North Auckland. By C. R. Laws 537–541 Zoology. Ascidians in the Vicinity of the Portobello Marine Biological Station, Otago Harbour. By Beryl I. Brewin 87–131 The Classification and Reproductive Organs of New Zealand Land Planarians—II. By Marion L. Fyfe 135–138 Lepidoptera Collecting at the Homer, with Descriptions of New Species. By W. George Howes 139–147

Observations on Anopheles punctulatus Donitz, 1901, and Anopheles farauti Laveran, 1902, at Palmalmal and Manginuna, New Britain, during July and August, 1945. By M. Laird 148–157 A Ceratopogonine Midge (Culicoides anophelis Edwards, 1922) sucking engorged Blood from a Mosquito (Armigeres lacuum Edwards, 1922) at Palmalmal, New Britain. By M. Laird 158–161 Tyroglyphid Mites in Stored Products in New Zealand. By Phyllis L. Robertson 185–207 On a New Genus and Species of Bat-fleas from the Pelorus Islands and New Zealand. By H. E. Karl Jordan 208–210 Additions to the Rotatoria of New Zealand. Part 1. By C. R. Russell 403–408 Trombidiidae (Acarina) from the Solomon Islands and New Zealand. By L. J. Dumbleton 409–413 The Hydroid and Medusa of Cnidonema vallentini (Anthomedusae) from Wellington, New Zealand. By Patricia M. Ralph 414–420 Ophiomyxa duskiensis, a New Ophiuroid from the Southern Fiords. By H. Barraclough Fell 421–422 Studies in Earthworms, XLII. By Sir William Benham, K.B.E., F.R.S. 423–428 The Gannet on Cape Kidnappers. By K. A. Wodzicki and C. P. McMeekan 429–452 Some Natural Enemies of Mosquitoes in the Vicinity of Palmalmal, New Britain. By M. Laird, M.Sc. 453–476 On the Circulatory System of Leiopelma hochstetteri With Particular Reference to the Posterior Cardinal Veins and to the Blood-Vessels of the Kidneys. By Elsie M. and N. G. Stephenson 492–503 The Migration of the New Zealand Bronze Cuckoo, Chalcites lucidus lucidus (Gmelin). By H. Barraclough Fell 504–515 Divided Winter Band in Brown Trout Scales from the Rakaia River. By M. H. Godby 516 The Classification and Reproductive Organs of New Zealand Land Planarians. Part III. By Marion L. Fyfe 517–523 The Embryology of Temnocephala novae-zealandiae Haswell. By Roy A. Harrison 524–536 Proceedings. Annual Meeting i–xxxix Presidential Address xl–xliv Appendix 598–607 Index to Volume 76 608–612 Obituary. Dr. J. E. Holloway xlv, xlvi William George Howes 262–263 George Vernon Hudson 264–266 William Henry Skinner 477–479