PACIFIC SCIENCE 
A QUARTERLY DEVOTED TO THE BIOLOGICAL 
AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES OF THE PACIFIC REGION 
VOL. VI APRIL, 1952 NO. 2 
Previous issue published January 11, 1952 
CONTENTS 
PAGE 
On the Psyllidae of New Zealand (Homoptera). L. D. Tuthill 83 
Descriptions and Redescriptions of the Hawaiian Octocorals Collected by the 
U. S. Fish Commission Steamer Albatross.” (1. Alcyonacea, Stolonifera, 
and Telestacea.) Frederick M. Bayer 126 
Properties of the Gray Hydromorphic Soils of the Hawaiian Islands. William 
R. Gill and G, Donald Sherman 137 
A New Variety of Pandanus and a New Species of Fimbristylis from the Central 
Pacific Islands. Pacific Plant Studies No. 11. Harold St. John 145 
Notes on the Mosquitoes of Nissan Island, Territory of New Guinea. Marshall 
Laird 151 
The Aedes Mosquitoes of the Philippine Islands. II. Sub genera Skusea, Christo- 
phersiomyia, Geoskusea, Rhinoskusea, and Stegomyia (Diptera, Culicidae). 
Kenneth L. Knight and William B. Hull 157 
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