Megalopta genalis is a species of the family Halictidae, otherwise known as the sweat bees. The bee is native to Central and South America (United States Geological Survey) On a moonless night, light ...

As this insect is “unquestionably rare in England,” and not common anywhere (“D. Daucus, a native of North America, being placed for it ”—according to Mr. Stephens—“in collections”), perhaps I may be ...