Contents

Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Volume 84, 1956-57, Unnumbered Page

Contents Pages Botany The Genus Aciphylla By W. R. B. Oliver 1–18 Australasian Cyttariaceae By G. B. Rawlings, B. For. Sc. 19–28 Vegetation and Climate in the Dunedin District By P. Wardle and A. F. Mark 33–44 Note on Diatoms in Wellington Harbour in 1953–54 By Brian E. Maxwell 197–200 Thelephoraceae of New Zealand, Parts IX, X and XI. Part IX—The Genus Stereum By G. H. Cunningham 201–268 A Check List of New Zealand Charophyta By R. Mason 269–271 Life-history Studies of New Zealand Species of Nectria Fr. By Joan M. Dingley 467–477 Thelephoraceae of New Zealand—Parts XII and XIII Part XII—The Genera Thelephora and Tomentella By G. H. Cunningham 479–496 A New Species of Pachycladon By W. R. Philipson 497–498 Floral Characters of Pittosporum dallii Cheeseman By Judith A. Hay 640–641 Additions to the Smut Fungi of New Zealand, II By Shirley D Brook 643–648 Contributions to a Knowledge of the Adventive Flora of New Zealand, No. 5 By A. J. Healy 649–659 Aspects of the Natural Regeneration of the Kauri (Agathis australis Salisb) By R V. Mirams 661–680 Studies in New Zealand Carices II and III By B. G.Hamlin 681–687 Life History Studies in the Genus Hypocrea Fr. By Joan M. Dingley, M.Sc. 689–693 Check List of the Fresh-Water Algae of New Zealand By V. J. Chapman, R. H. Thompson and E. C. M. Segar 695–747 Comparative Morphology of the New Zealand Species of Pseudopanax and Nothopanax By Kathleen Soper 749–755 Agropyron × wallii a Natural Hybrid in New Zealand By H. E. Connor 757–760 Chromosome Numbers in New Zealand Angiosperms By J. A. Rattenbury 936–938 Chemistry A Note on the Oil Extracted from Titoki Berries (Alectyron excelsum) By S. G.Brooker 935 Ecology Ecology of Southern New Zealand Sheltered Rocky Shore By E. J. Batham 447–465

Entomology The Heteroptera of New Zealand Part II—The Enicocephalidae. With a Supplement to Part I (Cydnidae and Pentatomidae) By T. E. Woodward 391–430 The Male Reproductive Organs of Nezara viridula (L) with a Preliminary Account of Their Development. (Heteroptera; Pentatomidae) By J. G. Pendergrast 139–146 Tabanidae (Diptera) of New Zealand By I. M. Mackerras 581–610 The Immature Stages of Some New Zealand Longhorn Beetles (Coleoptera-Cerambycidae) By L. J.Dumbleton 611–628 Geology The Otapirian Stage of the Triassic System of New Zealand Part II By J. D. Campbell 45–50 The Geology of Waiheke Island, Auckland By Heather M. Halcrow 51–69 The Seatoun Fault, Miramar Peninsula, Wellington By G. Leslie Adkin 273–277 Facies and Thickness of the Upper Paleozoic and Triassic Sediments of Southland By A. R. Mutch 499–511 Redeposition and Slumping in the Cretaceo-Tertiary Strata of S.E. Wellington By J. B. Waterhouse and J. Bradley 519–548 The Volcanic Domes at Mayor Island, New Zealand By R. N. Brothers 549–560 Tectonic Features in a Coastal Setting at Wellington By C. A. Cotton 761–790 Contributions to the Mineralogy of New Zealand, Part IV By C Osborne Hutton 791–803 Palaeontology Some Cretaceous Ammonites from New Zealand By C. W. Wright 805–809 A New Devonian Lamellibranch from Reefton, New Zealand By C. A. Fleming 943 Teleostean Otoliths from the Tertiary of New Zealand By Fred C Stinton 513–517 Zoology Remarks on the Bryozoan Genera Spiroporina Stoliczka and Haswellina Living-stone and their Genotypes By G H. Uttley 29–31 The Fresh-water Mollusca of New Zealand. Parts II and III By R. K. Dell 71–90 Note on the Mesenteric Nerve Net of the Anemone Metridium canum (Stuckey) By E J. Batham 91–92 On Shell-Burrowing Bryozoa and Phoroms from New Zealand By Lars Silen 93–96 Aquatic Oligochaetes Occurring in Forest Litter—I. By J. D. Stout 97–102 The Gross and Minute Anatomy of the Heart of the Lizard. Leiolopisma grande (Gray) By J. G.Buchanan 103–120 Ascidians from the Chatham Islands and the Chatham Rise By Beryl I. Brewin 121–137 The Migrations of Humpback Whales which Pass the New Zealand Coast By W. H.Dawbin 147–196

Variation in Obelia geniculata (Linnaeus, 1758) and Silicularia bilabiata (Coughtrey, 1875) (Hydroida, F. Campanulariidae) Patricia M. Ralph 279–296 Intestinal Flagellates from Some New Zealand Insects By Marshall Laird 297–308 Spawning of the Snapper, Chrysophrys auratus Forster in the Hauraki Gulf By R. Morrison Cassie 309–328 Age and Growth of the Snapper Chrysophrys auratus Forster, in the Hauraki Gulf By R. Morrison Cassie 329–339 The Osteology of the New Zealand Geckos and its Bearing on Their Morphological Status By N. G. Stephenson and Elsie M. Stephenson 341–358 Studies on the New Zealand Amphipodan Fauna. No. 13—Sandhoppers of the Genus Talorchestia By D. E. Hurley 359–389 Revision of the New Zealand Pill Millipedes (Oniscomorpha, Sphaerotheridae) By Beverley A. Holloway 431–446 A Revision of the Recent Scaphopod Mollusca of New Zealand By R. K. Dell 561–576 Ascidians of New Zealand. Part X—Ascidians from North Auckland By Beryl I. Brewin 577–580 Care of Eggs by Octopus maorum By E. J. Batham 629–638 New Zealand Thecate Hydroids. Part I.—Campanularndae and Campanulinidae By Patricia M. Ralph 811–854 A Review of the Copepod Genus Boeckella in New Zealand By V. H. Jolly 855–865 Field Observations on the New Zealand Frog, Leiopelma Fitzinger By Elsie M. Stephenson and N. G. Stephenson 867–882 Studies on Palaemon affinis M.-Edw. 1837. (Crustacea, Decapoda, Natantia) Part II.—Variation in the Form of the Rostrum By J. C. Yaldwyn 883–895 Some Rotifers from the South Pacific Islands and Northern Australia By C. R. Russell 897–902 Studies on the New Zealand Amphipodan Fauna No 14—The Genera Hyale and Allorchestes (Family Talitridae) By D. E. Hurley 903–933 Additions to the Rotatoria of New Zealand—Part VII By C. R. Russell 939–940 Faulty Eruption of the Fore-limb in Hyla aurea By L. R. Richardson and R. E. Barwick 941–942 Proceedings Annual Meeting i–xli Half-yearly Meeting xli–lxii Appendix Appendix 945–974 Index General Index 975–986