Volume 69, 1940

Contents.
| Obituaries. | |
| Pages | |
|---|---|
| James Scott Maclaurin | 183 |
| Edward Kidson | 186 |
| Agriculture. | |
| An Iodine Survey of New Zealand Live Stock. Part V—Sheep of the North Island. | |
| By D. F. Waters | 49 |
| Astronomy | |
| Catalogue of Aurora Australis Displays, 1931–1938. | |
| By M. Geddes | 381 |
| Observation of Meteors for the Years 1935–1938 in New Zealand. | |
| By R. A. McIntosh | 392 |
| Botany. | |
| New Zealand Seaweeds—Reference List No. II. The Rhodophyceae— Part A. | |
| (Bangiales, Nemalionales, Cryptonemiales, and Gigartinales.) | |
| By R. M. Laing | 134 |
| The Mould Fungi of New Zealand. II—The Genus Aspergillus. | |
| By J. C. Neill. | 237 |
| Notes on the Puccinelliae of New Zealand. | |
| By H. H. Allan and P. Jansen | 265 |
| Notes on New Zealand Floristic Botany, including Descriptions of New Species, etc.—No. 7. | |
| By H. H. Allan. | 270 |
| The Glaucous Hebe of the Inland Patea. | |
| By N L. Elder. | 373 |
| Note on the Tetrasporic Form of Gigartina alveata. | |
| By Victor W. Lindauer. | 378 |

| Chemistry. | |
| The Temperate Coefficient of the Decomposition of N-chloracetanilide. | |
| By R. A. Robinson and G. M. Smith | 41 |
| Entomology. | |
| Mosquito Life in the Auckland District. | |
| By David H. Graham. | 210 |
| Occurrence of Dasypodia selenophora in Southland. | |
| By J. H. Sorensen. | 225 |
| Additions to New Zealand Rhyacophilidae. Part 1. | |
| By A. G. McFablane. | 330 |
| Carposina adreptella. | |
| By F. J. Jeffreys. | 341 |
| Hexatricha pulverulenta Westwood. | |
| By F. J. Jeffreys. | 347 |
| The Validity of the Coccid Genus Eulecanium Cockerell. | |
| By G. Brittin | 410 |
| The Life History of Lecanium (Eulecanium) persicae (Fabricius), and Descriptions of the Different Instars. | |
| By G. Brittin | 413 |
| The Carabidae (Coleopteia) of New Zealand (Part 1. Pterostichini). | |
| By Everard B. Britton | 473 |
| Geology. | |
| Mineralogical Notes from the University of Otago, New Zealand—No. 2. | |
| By W. N. Benson and F. J. Tritton | 56 |
| The Bob's Cove Tertiary Beds and the Moonlight Thrust-Fault. | |
| By C. O. Hutton | 73 |
| Variation of Gravity within the Earth. | |
| By K. E. Bullen. | 188 |
| Mineralogical Notes from the University of Otago, N.Z. No. 3—Kaersutite and Other Brown Amphiboles in the Cainozoic Igneous Rocks of the Dunedin District. | |
| By W. N. Benson. | 283 |
| The Makara and Karori Valleys and Their Bearing Upon the Physiographic History of Wellington. | |
| By M. Gage | 401 |

| Mythology. | |
| The Birth, Growth, and Death of a Legend. | |
| By G. B. Palmer | 165 |
| Palaeontology. | |
| New Zealand Foraminifera: Key Species in Stratigraphy—No. 2. | |
| By H. J. Finlay | 89 |
| Review of the Tertiary and Recent Neozelanic Pyramidellid Molluscs. No. 6—The Genus Odostomia. | |
| By C. R. Laws. | 191 |
| N.Z. Foraminifera: Key Species in Stratigraphy—No. 3. | |
| By H. J. Finlay. | 309 |
| New Zealand Foraminifera: Key Species in Stratigraphy. No. 4. | |
| By H. J. Finlay | 448 |
| The Waitotaran Faunule at Kaawa Creek—Part 3. | |
| By C. R. Laws | 427 |
| Zoology. | |
| A New Fresh-water Fish of the Genus Philypnodon. | |
| By G. Stokell | 129 |
| Descriptive Notes on Some New Zealand Fishes. | |
| By Gilbert P. Whitley and W. J. Phillipps. | 228 |
| Breeding Habits of the Fishes of Otago Harbour and Adjacent Seas. | |
| By David H. Graham. | 361 |
| A New Species of Galaxias. | |
| By G. Stokeli. | 422 |
| A Second Specimen of Callanthias in New Zealand Waters. | |
| By David H. Graham | 425 |
| Proceedings. | |
| Annual Meeting | 5 |
| Presidential Address | 26 |
| Appendix | 509 |
