Vol. 15, Nos. 1 and 2 June, 1979

MICRONESICA Journal of the University of Guam

DEVOTED TO THE NATURAL SCIENCES OF MICRONESIA AND RELATED AREAS

CONTENTS

•Anthropology MARSHALL

eBiology

. Education and Depopulation on a Micronesian Atoll

KUMANO . . . Morphological Study of Nine Taxa of Bostrychia (Rhodophyta) from southwestern Japan, Hong Kong and Guam

SETO ... Comparative Study of Thorea gaudichaudii (Rhodophyta) from Guam and Okinawa

FOSBERG, SACHET, and OLIVER ... A Geographical Checklist of the Micronesian Dicotyledonae

REICHELT ... Infaunal Polychaetes of Reef Crest Habitats at Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef

GREENWOOD and FIELDER ... A Comparative Study of Larval Morphology of Four Species of Thalamita (Crustacea: Portunidae)

FOURMANOIR and RANDALL . . . Three New Species of Serranid Fishes of the Genus Plectranthias from New Caledonia

MENZIES and ZUG ... Papuan Tree Frogs of the Litoria thesaurensis Complex (Salienta: Hylidae)

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S. H. Riesenberg National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution

J. A. Marsh, Jr. Marine Laboratory University of Guam

M. Marshall Department of Anthropology University of Iowa

S. T. Price

B. C. Stone Department of Botany University of Malaya

R. T. Tsuda Marine Laboratory University of Guam

J. H. Underwood Pacific Studies Institute Agana, Guam

Department of Anthropology University of Arizona

J. E. Randall Bernice P. Bishop Museum Honolulu, Hawaii

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MICRONESICA

Journal of the University of Guam

VOL. 15, Nos. 1 and 2 Agana, GUAM June, 1979

CONTENTS

Anthropology MARSHALL, M. Education and depopulation on a Micronesian atoll .......... I

Biology KuMANO, S. Morphological study of nine taxa of Bostrychia (Rhodophyta)

from southwestern Japan, Hong Kong and Guam ...................... 13 SETO, R. Comparative study of Thorea gaudichaudii (Rhodophyta) from

Guam and Okinawa ....................... . ...................... 35 FOSBERG, F. R., M .-H. SACHET, and R. OLIVER. A geographical checklist

of the Micronesian Dicotyledonae .................................... 41 REICHELT, R. Infaunal polychaetes of reef crest habitats at Heron Island,

Great Barrier Reef .................. . .. . ............ . ............ 297 GREENWOOD, J. G., and D. R. FIELDER. A comparative study of larval

morphology of four species of Thalamita (Crustacea : Portunidae) ...... 309 FoURMANOIR, P., and J. E. RANDALL. Three new species of serranid fishes

of the genus Plectranthias from New Caledonia . . ...................... 315 MENZIES, J. I., and G. R. ZuG. Papuan tree frogs of the Litoria thesaurensis

complex (Salienta: Hylidae) ........ . ................ . ............ 325

Book Review MARSH, J. A., Jr. Mankind's Future in the Pacific by R. F. Scagel (ed.) ........ 335