CONTENTS. 



I. BOTANY. 



Art. I. Notes from the Canterbury College Mountain Biological Station, pages 



Cass : No. 5 — The Mat-plants, Cushion-plants, and Allied 

 Forms of the Cass River Bed (Eastern Botanical District, 

 New Zealand). By C. E. Foweraker, M.A. . . . . 1-45 



II. Notes on Parsonsia capsnlaris R. Br. By H. Carse . . . . 45-46 



III. On a New South Polynesian Palm, with Notes on the Genus 



Rhopahstylii Wendl. et Drude. By Dr. Odoardo Beccari . . 47-50 



IV. Descriptions of New Native Flowering-plants, with some Notes on 



Known Species. By D. Petrie, M.A., Ph.D. . . . . 51-55 



V. Notes on New Zealand Floristic Botany, including Descriptions 

 of New Species, &c. (No. 2). By L. Cockayne, Ph.D., F.L.S., 

 F.R.S. . . . . . . . . . . . . 56-65 



VI. A Consideration of the Terms " Species " and " Variety " as 



used in Botany, with Special Beference to the Flora of New 

 Zealand. By L. Cockayne, Ph.D., F.L.S., F.R.S. . . . . 66-79 



VII. Studies in the New Zealand Species oi' the Genus Lycopodium : 



Part II — Methods of Vegetative Reproduction. By the Rev. 



J. E. Holloway, D.Sc. . . . . . . . . . . 80-93 



VIII. The Vegetation and Flora of Lord Howe Island. By W. R. B. 



Oliver .. .. .. .. .. .. 94-161 



IX. Botanical Results of an Excursion to the Upper Makarora Valley 

 and the Haast Pass, supported by a List of the Species 

 observed. By D. L. Poppelwell . . .. .. .. 161-166 



X. Notes of a Botanical Excursion to Long Island, near Stewart 



Island, including a List of Species. By D. L. Poppelwell . . 167-171 



XLIX. Effects of the Snowstorm of the 6th September, 1916, on the 



Vegetation of Stewart Island. By Walter Traill ' . . . . 51 8 



II. ZOOLOGY. 



Art. XL Contributions to the Diptera Fauna of New Zealand : Part I. 

 By David Miller 



XII. A List of the Lepidoptera of Otago. By Alfred Philpott 



XIII. Descriptions of New Speoies of Lepidoptera. By Alfred Philpott. . 



XIV. Descriptions of New Zealand Lepidoptera. By E. Meyrick, B.A., 



F.R.S. 



XV. Revision of the New Zealand Notodontina. By E. Meyrick, 

 B.A., F.R.S. 



New Lepidoptera. By W. G. Howes, F.E.S. 



XVI. 

 XVII. 



XVIII. 

 XIX. 



XX. 



XXI. 



Some Corals from Kermadec Islands. By Thomas Wayland 

 Vaughan 



On the Origin of a New Species by Isolation. By Henry Suter . . 



Notes on the Occurrence and Habits of the Fresh-water Crus- 

 tacean Lepidurus oiridis Baii'd. By Miss E. M. Herriott, M.A. 



The New Zealand Sand-hoppers belonging to the Genus Talorchestia. 

 By Charles Chilton, M.A., D.Sc, LL.D., F.L.S., C.M.Z.S. 



The Lithobiomorpha of New Zealand. By Gilbert Archey, M.A. 



172-194 

 195-238 

 239-245 



245-247 



248-273 

 274 



275-279 

 279-283 



284-291 



292-303 

 303-318 



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