Contents

Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Volume 78, 1950, Unnumbered Page

Contents Botany A “Loose-lying” Form of the Brown Alga Hormosira By L. B. Moore 48–53 New Species of New Zealand Bryophytes By K. W. Allison 93–96 The Epiphytic Orchids of New Zealand and a New Species of Pterostylis from Mount Egmont By Edwin D. Hatch 101–105 Some Aspects of the Life History of the Liverwort Symphyogyna hymenophyllum (Hook.) M. et N. By Margaret K. Finlayson 280–290 Studies of New Zealand Nothofagus. 1. Taxonomy and Floral Morphology By A. L. Poole 363–380 The Bryophytes of Stewart Island, Part III. By William Martin 485–501 Studies of the New Zealand Nothofagus Species. By A. L. Poole 502–508 Root System of the New Zealand Mangrove. By G. T. S. Baylis 509–514 Chemistry The Reaction of Hydrogen Chloride with Dry Proteins. Part I—Collagen By R. W. Green 291–300 Geology An Eroded Coastline By R. Speight 3–13 Some Unusual Shore Platforms near Gisborne, North Island, New Zealand By Edmund D. Gill 64–68 Spilites, Serpentinites and Associated Rocks of the Mossburn District, Southland By J. J. Reed 106–126 The Geology of the Mokohinau Islands, North Auckland By C. A. Fleming 255–268 An Intrusion of Porphyrite near Waihao Forks, South Canterbury By A. C. Amies 271–279 Two New Zealand Rivers Following Tertiary Transverse Furrows By A. R. Lillie 329–341 Antlerite, from Takitimu Mountains, New Zealand By C. Osborne Hutton and J. D. McCraw 342–343 Stream Patterns in the Greymouth District. By Maxwell Gage 418–425

The Geology of the Northern Taringatura Hills, Southland. By D. S. Coombs 426–448 Slump Structures in the Waitemata Beds Around Auckland. By Ph. H. Kuenen 467–475 A Vitreous Sedimentary Bomb from Pyroclastic Material at Auckland, New Zealand. By E. J. Searle 479–481 Marine Ecology Ecological Study of Benhamina obliquata (Sowerby), a Basommatophorous Pulmonate in Otago Harbour. By Constance Borland 385–393 A Quantitative Study of Some Factors Affecting Tide Pools. By M. P. Ambler and V. J. Chapman 394–409 Palaeontology A Triassic Echinoid from New Zealand By H. Barraclough Fell 83–85 The Molluscan Fauna of the Pahi Greensands, North Auckland By C. A. Fleming 236–250 A Post-Tertiary Micro-fauna in a Concretion Containing Cancer novaezealandiae By W. N. Benson and H. J. Finlay 269–270 The Type of the Ammonite Madrasites mckayi (Hector). By J. Marwick 482–484 Zoology Notes on Synonymy among New Zealand Insects—1 By J. T. Salmon 1–2 New Zealand Flycatchers of the Genus Petroica Swainson—Part 1 By C. A. Fleming 14–47 Ascidians from Otago Coastal Waters By Beryl I. Brewin 54–63 A New Species of Acridiidae (Insecta: Orthoptera) from New Zealand By J. T. Salmon 69 Ctenophores from the Waters of Cook Strait and Wellington Harbour By Patricia M. Ralph 70–82 An Occurence in Wellington Harbour of Cyclotrichium meunieri Powers, a Ciliate causing Red Water, with Some Additions to its Morphology By Brian M. Bary, and R. G. Stuckey 86–92 Studies on New Zealand Hirudinea. (Part 1) Pontobdella benhami n.sp. By Laurence R. Richardson 97–100 New Zealand Flycatchers of the Genus Petroica Swainson (Aves). Part II By C. A. Fleming 127–160 Additions to the Rotatoria of New Zealand. Part III By C. R. Russell 161–166

The Family Peloridiidae (Hemiptera) and Its Occurrence in New Zealand By Myra W. Carter 167–170 Auckland Island Coleoptera By E. S. Gourley 171–202 Notes on Staphylinidae, Chiefly from New Zealand. Part I By W. O. Steel 202–212 Notes on Staphylinidae, Chiefly from New Zealand. Part II By W. O. Steel 213–235 New Zealand Recent Thyasiridae (Mollusca) By C. A. Fleming 251–254 Studies on the Freshwater Ciliates of New Zealand. Part I By Brian M. Bary 301–310 Studies on the Freshwater Ciliates of New Zealand. Part II By Brian M. Bary 311–323 On Cryptochaeta, a New Genus of Earthworms; and a Nomenclatural Muddle Solved By W. B. Benham 324–328 Ascidians of New Zealand. Part IV—Ascidians in the Vicinity of Christchurch By Beryl I. Brewin 344–353 Ascidians of New Zealand. Part V—Ascidians from the East Coast of Great Barrier Island By Beryl I. Brewin 354–362 Freshwater Triclads New to the Fauna of New Zealand. By Frances R. Nurse 410–417 Occurrence of Lonchoptera dubia Curran in New Zealand. By Roy A. Harrison 449–450 The Struthiolariidae: Reproduction, Life History and Relationships. By J. E. Morton 451–463 The Occurrence in New Zealand of the Enteropneust Balanoglossus australiensis. By J. E. Morton 464–466 The Occurrence of Leptomonas ctenocephali (Fantham, 1912) (Protozoa: Protomonadina) in the Intestine and Malpighian Tubules of the Cat Flea, Ctenocephalides felis (Bouche, 1835), in New Zealand. By Marshall Laird 476–478 Appendix Appendix 515–525 Obituary Thomas Hill Easterfield (1866–1949) 381–384 Proceedings Annual Meeting i-xxxiii