Dr AbePs Account of the Capture of cm Orang^Outang. S7I 



The individual figured is from the Island of Harris, and is 

 tlie largest in my possession. 



S. Venerufis nucleus. Lamarck Syst. v. p. 507. PI. I. 

 fig. 12, 13. 



Spec. Cha7\ — V. testa ovata, extremitatibus obtusa, ad um- 

 bones laevigata, transverse rugosa, longitudinaliter striis minu- 

 tissimis decussata, latere antico lamelloso. 



Description. — Shell broadly ovate, subrhomboideal, rounded 

 at both ends, with the umbones close upon the posterior extre- 

 mity, thick, transversely wrinkled, longitudinally very minutely 

 striate, the umbones smooth and shining, the anterior extremity 

 lamellar. Colour yellowish-white. Left valve with three, right 

 with two teeth, much resembling those of Venus pullastra, but 

 shorter. Anterior extremity a little hiant. Internal surface 

 smooth, shining, white^ with a purple spot at the anterior extre- 

 mity. 



It is allied to, but very distinct from, Montagues Venus per- 

 forans. 



The specimen figured is from the Island of Seal pay, in Har- 

 ris ; but I have seen one from the same place more than double 

 the size. 



Of the species here described, the first is supposed to be new ; 

 the second to be for the first time ascertained as British. 



Account of the Capture of a colossal Orang-Outang in the 

 Island of Sumatra^ arid Description of its Appearance. By 

 Dr Clauk Abel. 



An the Hunterian Museum there was, and probably still is, 

 the arm of an orang-outang, which many years ago excited the 

 curiosity of naturalists, and induced them to infer that it be- 

 longed to an animal exceeding in height the human species. 

 That arm, Ave doubt not, belonged to the species here noticed 

 by Dr Abel, of whiclj the following accounts, extracted from 

 the fifteenth volume of the Asiatic Researches, cannot but be 

 read with much interest. 



The individual described by Dr Abel was captured in the 

 woods of Sumatra. 



