PACIFIC SCIENCE 
A QUARTERLY DEVOTED TO THE BIOLOGICAL 
AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES OF THE PACIFIC REGION 
VOL. XX JANUARY 1966 NO. 1 
Previous issue published November 5, 1965 
CONTENTS 
PAGE 
The Biology of the Mussel Crab, Fabia subquadrata, from the Waters of the 
San Juan Archipelago, Washington . Jack B. Pearce . 3 
Relationships between Standing Crops at Three Successive Trophic Levels in the 
Eastern Tropical Pacific. Maurice Blackburn 36 
Observations on Osmotic Relationships in the Holothurian 
Opheodesoma spectabilis. Paul Joel Freeman 60 
Ellobiopsidae of Alaskan Coastal Waters. Ethelwyn G. Hoffman and 
Robert M. Yancey .... 70 
Four New Diclidophorids ( Monogenoidea) Parasitic on the Gills of Marine Fishes 
from the Southwest Coast of India. R. Viswanathan Unnithan 79 
New Fish Records from Hawaii: Hime, Pikea, and Omobranchus. 
Donald W . Strasburg 91 
Histogenesis in Roots of Nothofagus solandri var. cliffortioides (Hook, f.) Poole. 
B. C. Arnold 95 
Two New Mites (Acarina: Laelapinae) from Oriental Insectivores 
( Mammalia : Insectivora). E. W. Jameson, Jr 100 
Studies of Food Preference in Algivorous Invertebrates of Southern California 
Kelp Beds. David L. Leighton 104 
An Anatomical Study of the Hawaiian Fern Adenophorus sarmentosus. 
Kenneth A. Wilson and Fred R. Ricks on 114 
Desilication of Halloysite and Its Relation to Gibbsite Formation. 
Goro Uehara, Haruyoshi Ikawa, and G. Donald Sherman 119 
The Rise of Sea Level in Contemporary Times at Honaunau, Kona, Hawaii. 
Russell A. Apple and Gordon A. Macdonald 125 
NOTE 
Destruction of Marine Flora and Fauna in Fiji Caused by the Hurricane of 
February 1965. M. J. Cooper •_ 137 
BOOK REVIEW 
Insects of Campbell Island, by J. L. Gressitt et al 142 
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