Contents

Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Volume 82, 1954-55, Unnumbered Page

Contents Volume 82, Part I Pages Botany The Female Conceptacle and Young Sporeling of the four New Zealand Species of Corapophyllums. By Margaret Naylor 1–6 New Zealand Hepaticae (Liverworts)—VIII. A. Review of the New Zealnd Species of the Genera Bazzania and Acromastigum By E. Amy Hodgson 7–24 Variation in a Sample of Pinus radiata Cones from the Nelson District By M. H. Bannister 25–40 Some Notes on Suaeda australis Moq., var. nova zelandica var. nov. and Measmbryantheamum australe Sol ex Forst. f. By J. B. Mackay and V. J. Chapman 41–47 Studies in New Zealand Carices I. The Section Acutae Fries By B. G. Hamlin 49–64 A Disease of Manuka Leptospermun scoparium Forst. By A. P. Mulcouk 115–118 Zoology Studies on New Zealand Elasmobranchii. Part I. Two Further Specimens of Arhynochobaties asperrimus Waite, (Batoidei) with an Account of the Skeleton and a Discussion on the Systematic Position of the Species. By J. A. F. Garrick 119–132 Ascidians of New Zealand. Part IX. A New Species of Distalia By Beryl I. Brewin 133–135 The Land Mollusca of Stewart and Solander Islands By R. K. Dell 137–156 Oeonemertes pentini, a New Land Nemertine from the Dunedin District By A. J. Southgate, B.A., B.SC. 157–160 A New Genus and Species of Phasmidae from New Zealand By J. T. Salmon, D.S.C., F.R.S.N.Z., F.B.E.S. 161–168 Studies on Palaemon offinis M.—Edw. 1837, (Crustacea, Decapoda, Natantia.) Part I. Synonymy and External Morphology By J. C. Yaldwyn 169–187 Studies on New Zealand Elasmobranchil. Part II. A Description of Dasyatis brevicaudatus (Hutton), Batoidei, With a Review of Records of the Species Outside New Zealand By J. A. F. Garrick 189–198 Some Observations on the Ciliate Fauna of an Experimental Meat Digestion Plant By J. D. Stout 199–211 Two New Species of New Zealand Collembola By J. T. Salmon, D.SC., F.R.S.N.Z., F.B.E.S. 213–217 GEOLOGY The Nature and Alteration of Some Triassie Sediments from Southland, New Zealand By D. S. Coombs 65–109 An Upper Triassic Lamellibranch from the Southern Alps of North Westland, New Zealand (Sheet S53) By C. A. Fleming, F. W. Munden and R. P. Suggate. 111–114