22 Mr. G. Lewis on 



Agama microterohpis. 



Head rather small, much depressed. Nostril tabular, 

 directed upwards and backwards, on the canthus rostralis. 

 Upper head- scales smooth ; occipital enlarged ; sides of head 

 near the ear and neck with groups of short spines ; ear- 

 opening large, larger than the eye-opening. Throat much 

 plicate ; no gular pouch. Body much depressed, covered with 

 very small uniform scales, dorsals and laterals keeled, ventrals 

 smooth ; dorsal scales converging and increasing in size 

 towards the vertebral line; 90 to 100 scales on the vertebral 

 line from the origin of the fore limbs to the origin of the hind 

 limbs, 150 to 160 round the middle of the body; a slight 

 indication of a nuchal crest ; no dorsal crest. Tibia a little 

 longer than the skull. Digits moderate ; fourth finger slightly 

 longer than third ; fourth toe slightly longer than third, fifth 

 extending beyond first. Tail about twice as long as the 

 distance from gular fold to vent, depressed at the base, 

 slightly compressed at the end, with a rudimentary keel or 

 low crest in the male ; scales moderately large, strongly 

 keeled, disposed quincuncially or forming irregular annuli. 

 Male with a row of anal pores. Dark greyish olive above, 

 with dark brown marblings and rings ; vertebral line 

 yellowish ; tail with dark brown annuli, which are inter- 

 rupted below ; throat bluish grey ; belly and lower surface of 

 limbs bluish grey in the male, white in the female. 



millim. 



Total length 270 



Head 23 



Width of head 23 



Body 87 



Fore limb 60 



Hind limb 75 



Tail 160 



Three specimens from the Rustenburg District, Transvaal, 

 collected by Mr. W. Ay res. 



IV. — On the Coccinellidai of Japan. 

 By G. Lewis, F.L.S. 



Before Mr. G. R. Crotch left for America in 1872 he 

 determined the species of Coccinellida3 I then had from 

 Japan, and furnished me with a list of the species. The 

 list was afterwards published in the Ent. Month. Mag. x. 



