New Zealand Journal of Zoology 2001

Volume 28/Number 1/March 2001

Pest control

The eradication of feral cats (Felis catus) from Little Barrier Island, New Zealand C. R. VEITCH
Bird and rat numbers on Little Barrier Island, New Zealand, over the period of cat eradication 1976-80 S. A. B. GIRARDET , C. R. VEITCH , J. L. CRAIG
Relative abundance of mammalian predators in the upper Waitaki Basin, South Island, New Zealand RACHEL J. KEEDWELL , KERRY P. BROWN
Comparison of baits containing fipronil and sulfluramid for the control of Vespula wasps R. J. HARRIS, N. D. ETHERIDGE

Biology of New Zealand mammals

Diet of house mice (Mus musculus L.) on coastal sand dunes, Otago, New Zealand AARON P. MILLER , PETER I. WEBB
Population biology of the ship rat and Norway rat in Pureora Forest Park, 1983-87 J. G. INNES, C. M. KING, M. FLUX, M. O. KIMBERLEY
Distribution and breeding of New Zealand sea lions Phocarctos hookeri on Campbell Island NATHAN MCNALLY, SONJA HEINRICH , SIMON CHILDERHOUSE

Invertebrate zoology

Biology of insects that feed in the inflorescences of Chionochloa (Poaceae) in New Zealand and their relevance to mast seeding MARK J. MCKONE , DAVE KELLY, ANDREA L. HARRISON , JON J. SULLIVAN , ANGELA J. CONE
Lectotypes for Neocurupira chiltoni (Campbell) and Peritheates harrisi (Campbell) (Diptera: Blephariceridae) I. D. MCLELLAN
Variation in size of male weaponry in a harem-defence polygynous insect, the mountain stone weta Hemideina maori (Orthoptera: Anostostomatidae) J. WILL KONING, IAN G. JAMIESON

Volume 28/Number 2/June 2001

New Zealand fauna

A working list of breeding bird species of the New Zealand region at first human contact RICHARD N. HOLDAWAY, TREVOR H. WORTHY, ALAN J. D. TENNYSON
Fostering behaviour in New Zealand sea lions Phocarctos hookeri SIMON CHILDERHOUSE, NICK GALES
Key to the genera of Mirinae (Hemiptera: Miridae) in New Zealand and descriptions of new taxa A. C. EYLES

Book reviews

Book Reviews G. KUSCHEL, W. M.WOUTS

Parasitology

Abstracts of the papers and posters presented at the 28^th Conference of the NZ Society for Parasitology held in Palmerston North, New Zealand, 30-31 August 1999

Volume 28/Number 3/September 2001

Invertebrate zoology

Four new species and a new genus of Trichoptera (Helicophidae) from New Caledonia KJELL ARNE JOHANSON, JOHN B. WARD
Mating behaviour, and evidence for a female-released sex pheromone, in Wiseana copularis (Meyrick) (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae) RACHEL A. ALLAN, Q. WANG
Gross features of the alimentary canal and reproduction organs in Prodontria lewisii (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae) S.M. FERREIRA , B. MCKINLAY
Invertebrate survey of a modified native shrubland, Brookdale Covenant, Rock and Pillar Range, Otago, New Zealand JOSé G. B. DERRAIK , BARBARA I. P. BARRATT, PHIL SIRVID, RODERICK P. MACFARLANE, BRIAN H. PATRICK, JOHN EARLY, ALAN C. EYLES, PETER M. JOHNS, PATRICIA M. FRASER, GARY M. BARKER, ROSA HENDERSON, PAM J. DALE, MARK S. HARVEY, GRAHAM FENWICK, IAN D. MCLELLAN, KATHARINE J. M. DICKINSON, GERARD P. CLOSS
Scree weta phylogeography: surviving glaciation and implications for Pleistocene biogeography in New Zealand STEVEN A. TREWICK
Prey-capture techniques and prey preferences of Zenodorus durvillei, Z. metallescens and Z. orbiculatus, tropical ant-eating jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from Australia ROBERT R. JACKSON, DAIQIN LI

Behaviour

Time budget, foraging activities, diet and occurrence of aspergillosis in captive yellowheads (Mohoua ochrocephala) PETRA STILLER

Herpetology

Records of foreign reptiles and amphibians accidentally imported to New Zealand B. J. GILL, D. BEJAKOVICH , A. H. WHITAKER
Abstracts of papers presented at the 9^th Society for Research on Amphibians and Reptiles in New Zealand Conference, St Arnaud, Nelson Lakes, New Zealand, 2-4 February 2001 -

Volume 28/Number 4/December 2001

Invertebrate taxonomy

Genus Paracladura Brunetti of the Australian Region. I. Characteristics of the antipoda group of species; a new species described (Diptera: Trichoceridae) EWA KRZEMIN'SKA
Species in sympatry: Pselaphotheseus of Campbell Island (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) CHRISTOPHER E. CARLTON, RICHARD A. B. LESCHEN

Fish taxonomy

The principal caudal fin ray count - a fundamental character in the galaxioid fishes R. M. MCDOWALL
Descriptions of two new species of Bodianus (Perciformes: Labridae) from Australasian waters MARTIN F. GOMON

Pest biology

Relative abundance and seasonality of Calliphoridae and Sarcophagidae (Diptera), potential vectors of rabbit haemorrhagic disease virus (RHDV) in the South Island of New Zealand B. I. P. BARRATT , C. M. FERGUSON , A. C. G. HEATH , R. A. S. LOGAN

Short communication

Rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) on Ruapehu at 1800 m JOHN E. C. FLUX

Ornithology

Abstracts of papers presented at the 3rd Oamaru Penguin Symposium held at the Quality Hotel Brydone, Oamaru, New Zealand, 21 and 22 June 2001

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