VI 



( 'ontents. 



Akt. XV. Embryological Structure of New Zealand Lepi- pages 

 doptera : Parti. By Ambrose Quail .. .. 159-166 



XVI. On "Sugaring" for Lepidoptera in Southland. By 

 Alfred Philpott. Communicated by G. V. Hudson, 

 F.E.S. . . . . . . . . . . 1«6-167 



XVI T. A Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of Southland. By 

 Alfred Philpott. Communicated by G. V. Hudson. 

 F.E.S. .. .. .. .. 167-185 



XVIII. Lepidoptera of Mount Ida. By J. H. Lewis. Com- 

 municated by G. V. Hudson, F.E.S. . . . . 186-187 



XIX. On the Occurrence of Metacrias strategica at Inver- 

 cargill. By George Howes, F.E.S. Communi- 

 cated by G. V. Hudson, F.E.S. . . . . 188-190 



Breeding Black Sheep : a Study in Colour. By 



Taylor White . . . . . . . . 191-199 



On Hybridism. By Taylor White .. .. 199-206 



On the Freshwater Shells of Rissington, Hawke's 



Bay. By F. Hutchinson, jun. . . . . -207-213 



Scinde Island, from a Naturalist's Point of View. 



By F. Hutchinson, jun. .. .. .. 213-221 



Notes on New Zealand Land Planarians : Part IV. 

 By Arthur Dendy, D Sc, F.L.S., Professor of 

 Biology in the Canterbury College, University of 

 New Zealand . . . . . . . . 222-210 



Notes on Salmonidce and their New Home in the 

 South Pacific. By A. J. Rutherfurd, Chairman 

 of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society . . 210-219 



Description of a New Ophiurid. By H. Farquhar. 

 Communicated by the Secretary of the Wellington 

 Philosophical Society . . . . . . 250 



Our Migratory Birds. By Captain F. W. Hutton, 



F.RS. .. .. .. .. .. 251-261 



XX. 



XXI. 

 XXII. 



XXIII. 



XXIV. 



XXV. 



XXVI. 



xxvir. 



II. — Botany. 



XXVIII. An Inquiry into the Seedling Forms of New Zealand 

 Phanerogams and their Development. By L. 

 Cockayne . . . . . . . . . . 265-298 



XXIX. Note on the Occurrence of the Genera Gunnera and 



Myosotis in Chatham Islands. By L. Cockayne 298-299 

 XXX. A List of the Seaweeds of Norfolk Island. By 11. M. 



Laing, B.Sc. . . . . . . . . 299-301 



XXXI. On the Occurrence of Cordyline terminalis in New 



Zealand. By the Rev. Canon Walsh . . . . 301-306 



XXX II. Note:, on the Cultivated Food plauts of the Poly- 

 nesians, with Special Reference to the Ti Pore 

 (Cordyline terminalis). By T. F. Cheeseman, 

 F.L.S. .. .. .. .. .. 306 311 



XXXIII. Some Recent Additions to the New Zealand Flora. 



By T. F. Cheeseman . . . . . . . . 312 



XXXIV. I'iant-acclimatisation in New Zealand By George 



M. Thomson, F.L.S. .. .. . .' .. 313 



XXXV. On the Regrowth of the Totara. "i3y Joshua Rutland 324-327 

 XXXVI. Descriptions of New Native Plants. Bv D. Petrie, 



M.A. . . . . . . " . . . . 328- 



XXXVII. Notes on the New Zealand Musci. By Robert 



Brown . . . . . . . . . . 330-333 



