PACIFIC SCIENCE 
A QUARTERLY DEVOTED TO THE BIOLOGICAL 
AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES OF THE PACIFIC REGION 
VOL. VI JANUARY, 1952 NO. 1 
Previous issue published November 19, 1951 
CONTENTS 
PAGE 
Notes on a Collection of Orchids from Ponape, Caroline Islands. 
Alex D. Hawkes 3 
Some Luminous Fishes of the Genera Yarrella and Polyipnus. Yata Haneda . 13 
A New Genus of Seed-infesting Microptery gid Moths. L. J. Dumbleton ... 17 
Notes on Hawaiian Species of Scaevola (Goodeniaceae). Hawaiian Plant Studies 
19. Harold St. John 30 
Inter-tidal Zonation at Rangitoto Island, New Zealand. (Studies in Inter-tidal 
Zonation 4.) J. A. Carnahan 35 
A New Atherinid Fish of the Genus Iso from the Hawaiian Islands. William 
A. Gosline 47 
Germination of Koa Haole (Leucaena glauca (L.) Benth.) Seed. Ernest K. 
Akamine ' 51 
Allometric Growth in the Striped Marlin, Makaira mitsukurii, from New Z^^- 
James E. Morrow, Jr 53 
Variation in the Vertebral Number of the Anchovy ( Stolephoms purpureus ) in 
Hawaiian Waters. Albert L. Tester and Robert W Hiatt 59 
On the Identity of Stylarioides inflata (Treadwell) and Its Extended Distribti^tion 
(Annelida). Olga Hartman 71 
Observations on a Specimen of Bluefin Tuna (Thunnus thynnus) Taken in Ha- 
waiian Waters. Fred C. June 75 
NEWS NOTES 77 
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