56 Journal New York Entomological Society, t^^o'- x>^iii- 



of the genera separated from the old genus Calopteron by Leconte.^ 

 It looks like a small Celctcs, but differs by the slightly larger eyes, 

 the dense coarse hairs that clothe the body and the crater-like eleva- 

 tion of the disk of the thorax. 



Neoceletes crateracoUis new species. 



Black, mandi"bles yellow, thorax above yellow, submargin of elytra towards 

 apex faintly pale ; densely clothed throughout with short coarse hairs except 

 on the second joint of the antennae and on the abdomen, the hairs yellow on 

 the thorax, black elsewhere. Elongate, slender, head depressed, scarcely vis- 

 ible from above, eyes globose, prominent, finely granulated, separated by less 

 than half their width; head between the eyes vaguely but deeply channeled, 

 mandibles small, acute, last joint of palpi truncate; antennae black, densely 

 clothed with short black hairs except on second joint, strongly compressed, 

 serrate, densely punctate ; prothorax small, elevated on the disk into a crater- 

 like cell, nearly circular in outline, but slightly angulate behind, superior 

 margin of cell apparently crenulate, densely clothed with hairs, elevation 

 greatest behind, where it is prolonged into a short process projecting over the 

 scutellum ; the deeply indented bottom of the cell impunctate, shining ; elytra 

 slightly wider behind, rounded at apex, mvalticostate with a double series of 

 quadrate punctures between the costae, which are not greatly elevated above 

 the narrow intervals separating the lines of punctures, surface feebly shining, 

 densely clothed with short black hairs. The second joint of the antennae is 

 short, broader than long, oval, glabrous, third joint as long as broad, suc- 

 ceeding joints gradually slightly longer, eleventh joint feebly appendiculate. 

 The legs are black, compressed, tarsi compressed, claws feebly toothed at 

 base, legs clothed with hairs like the body. Last ventral segment of male long, 

 conical, shining ; penultimate segment so deeply divided as to appear only as a 

 pair of plates embracing the last segment; the base of the penultimate seg- 

 ment is concealed by the deeply circularly emarginate preceding segment. 

 Length, s mm. 



One specimen collected at Glencarlyn, Alexandria County, Vir- 

 ginia, June 23, 1912. 



1 Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, IX, p. 17. 



