1825.] Scientific Notices — Zoology, 387 



above noticed in which the ribs are articulated to the body) the 

 transverse processes (or a tubercle which supphes their place) 

 receives the head of the ribs as in the following genera : viz. 

 the Plesiofeaurus, Maestricht Animal, Calotes, Monitor, Ameiva, 

 ScincUs Geckos, Agama, Anolis, also the Sirena, the Triton, 

 and ''the Salamandra, .amongst the Batrachia. — (Harlan Jour. 



oqofevno h3Qtjj'£hi<thevkmrnwus Sumatra Ape. i *^fiw gludol; 



An"^c(iourit' has "been' lately published of the caption oi" a 

 specimen of monkey at Taruman, in Sumatra, which is said by 

 some to be six, and others seven feet high. It is, perhaps, the 



full-grown ouran-outang.—(Edin. Jour. Scien. 1825.) ^ 



f}l.an Biiii^fi i >: ■..„ . q 



Jjw-^'io '^T.o}0, On some newly described British * 



,;f$fh'{W;^taacgillwray has described in the Edinburgh Journsi 

 of Science what he considers a new species of Pecten found on 

 the island of Seappay and the east coast of Harris. He 

 describes it as follows: 



P. niveuSj snowy pecten. Shell orbicular, thin, diaphanous* 

 Snow white, ribs 46, rather compressed, rounded> and scaled 

 with short thin spines.' (Edin. Phil. Jour.) t. 3, f,\. Length 

 3 mches>i breadth 2-f I length of the auricular margin 1 inch. 

 Mr. Macgillwray only compares it with P. varius, perhaps not 

 aware that Pecten Islandictis, Lam. of *which this shell appears 

 t^'be only a variety, has long been known as a British species. 



'Mr. Lowe, in the Zoological Journal, has described two shells 

 which appear to be new to this country. ■'->■- j*^'^ iifs .y^u jqjo^.' 



Turbo carneus, t. 5, f. 12 ^. Shell suhconibttl^'^ttffrfHlicrfl^ 

 girth wijth regular rather distant elevated striae ; the spire short, 

 with the apex elevated acute. 



This is allied to Helix margaritd of Montague, which Mr, 

 Lowe also makes a Turbo; it is the Margarita striata of Dr. 

 Leach, in the Appendix to Capt. Ross's Voyage. 



Chiton Aselloides, t. 5, f. 5. Shell carinated, the valves 

 slightly beaked, minutely, but regularly granulated over the 

 whole surface not at all in a beaded manner; margin coarsely 

 granulated, the granulations raised, black, dark. Chocolate 

 brown or black ; the ridges, edges, and interstices of the valves 

 yelldwisli white. Fringe very short and indistinct ; length 

 rather less than one- half ■ breadth one-fourth of an inch j inhabits 

 Oban, Appin. *^' hi^.- ^i..;.i/; Ihi ai^i]vniii.\0 



Mn Lov/e als^'d^6ftbcs a species of Te>PehY^kl^^'hii^^f t\ff^ 

 name of T, costata, as new both to science and Great Britain ; 

 but it appears to be the T. aurifa, figured and described by 

 Dr. Fleming in his Philosophy of Zoology, as found in Scotland. 



Mr* Bell, in the seime journal, has described what he considers 

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