Volume 80, 1952

Transactions
of the
Royal Society of New Zealand
Vol. 80
(Quarterly Issue)
Part 2, September, 1952
Edited and Published Under the Authority of the Council of the Royal Society of New Zealand
Issued September, 1952
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Contents
| Botany | Pages |
| The Genus Codium in New Zealand Part 1—Systematics By Vivienne Dellow | 119–141 |
| Distribution of the Mosses Indigenous to New Zealand Supplement No. 2 By William Martin | 197–205 |
| The Development of Nothofagus Seed (Including a Preliminary Account of the Embryogeny, etc.) By A. L Poole | 207–212 |
| New Records of Northern Hemisphere Mosses in New Zealand By K. W. Allison | 233–235 |
| ZOOLOGY | |
| Studies on the Biology of Pentatomid Bugs of the Genus Rhopalimorpha Dallas (Heteroptera) By J. G. Pendergrast | 143–153 |
| New Zealand Ichneumonidae. II. Tribe Echthromorphini (Pimphnae) By Arthur W. Parrott | 155–170 |
| Ascidians of New Zealand. Part VIII. Ascidians of the East Cape Region By Beryl I. Brewin | 187–195 |
| Notes on the Genus Haliotis (Mollusca), a New Subgenus from New Zealand, and a New Species from the Late Cenozoic of Ohope, Bay of Plenty By C. A. Fleming | 229–232 |
| Palaeogeography | |
| Palaeogeography of the Australian-New Zealand Region in Lower Devonian Time By Edmund D. Gill | 171–185 |
| Geology | |
| The Alpine Schists and the Upper Triassic of Harpers Pass (Sheet S52), South Island, New Zealand By H. W. Wellman, G. W. Grindley, F. W. Munden | 213–227 |
