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ZOOLOGY. 
A New Etheostoma from Arkansas.— Etheostoma pagei sp. 
nov. Head 33 in length of body; depth 4to 41; eye 33 in head; 
snout 32; dorsal fin with nine or ten spines and 12 or 13 soft rays; 
anal spines 2; soft rays 7; scales 8-56 to 61-13. 
Body robust, snout abruptly decurved but not blunt; mouth rather 
large terminal, maxillary reaching vertical from pupil ; premaxillaries 
not protractile; lips thick; gill-membranes not connected; cheeks, 
opercles and breast naked; nape scaled: lateral line imperfect, de- 
veloped on only about 12 scales. 
Color of male: belly bright red, extending on sides to upper rays of 
pectoral fins ; above the red is a yellowish band on the sides about as 
| wide as diameter of eye; upper part of body olivaceous with darker 
| markings, each scale being provided with a black spot, these making 
| faint lateral streaks along the rows of scales, about 9 dark blotches on 
the side, resembling faint bars. Caudal and soft dorsal fins barred ; 
pectorals faintly barred ; anal ventrals plain; a dark numeral scale. 
The female has the underparts whitish, the sides olivaceous, much 
mottled with darker; otherwise as in the male. 
Length, 2 inches. 
1 Only the types known. Two specimens taken in the spring branch 
on the U. S. Fish Hatchery grounds, at Neosho, Missouri. 
(Named for William F. Page, Superintendent of U. S. Fish Hatch- 
ery, Neosho, Missouri.)—S. E. MEEK. i 
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Immunity of Salamanders in Respect to Curare.—In a 
paper read before the French Academy of Sciences, March 14th of 
this year, MM. C. Phisalix and Ch. Contejean demonstrated that 
salamanders have the power of resisting, to a remarkable degree, the 
action of certain poisons, particularly that of curare. A salamander 
weighing 28 grammes, was completely curarised only after receiving 43 
millegrammes of curare, a quantity sufficient to poison 80 frogs. This 
immunity exists, but to a less degree, in the larva of the salamander, 
and to a still less degree in the tadpole of the frog. In order to study 
the cause of this immunity, the authors undertook a series of experi- 
ments. Their researches were conducted on the theory that there might 
exist a relation between the presence of venomous glands and this im- 
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