198 Mr. C. Tate Regan on Chaudhuria. 
poda has not the long curved mandibles of M. cephalotes 
and our insects, and the structure of the face differs. 
M. -stirostoma, Cam., from Dehra Dun, differs by the 
essentially hyaline wings, those of our insects being strongly 
smoky, except at base. The structure of the face and front 
also differ ; thus there is no median tubercle on the clypeus. 
There is black hair on the apical part of scutellum and on 
postscutellum, but the hair of these parts is all white in 
our species. 
Meyachile aureobasis, sp. n. 
3d .—Length about 10 mm. 
Black, the wings fuliginous except the base, which is 
strongly orange. Very close in all respects to M. umbri- 
pennis, Smith, from Nepal, but differing thus: hair of 
thorax above thin and short, so that the thorax appears 
dark, except around the margins, where the fox-red hair is 
conspicuous ; abdomen with entire hair-bands, that at apex 
of second segment red except at sides; front above antenna 
without a distinct band of fulvous hair. The end of the 
abdomen is faintly emarginate. 
Madras, Sept. 3, 1907 (7. S. A.). 
Perhaps only a local race of M. umbripennis, but I have 
seen no intermediates. 
Megachile anthracina, Smith. 
é. Coimbatore, Nov. 1913. 
XV.— Note on Chaudhuria, a Teleostean Fish of the Order 
Opisthomt. By C. Tate Reaan, M.A., F.R.S. 
(Published by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.) 
In a recent memoir on the fishes of the Inlé Lake (Southern 
Shan States) Dr. Annandale * has described a new genus and 
species to which he has given the name Chaudhuria caudata, 
and has made it the type of a new family—Chaudhuriide—of 
the order Apodes. On reading Dr. Annandale’s description 
and studying his figures I came to the conclusion that this 
little fish was not a member of the Apodes (cf. Regan f), but 
* Annandale, “ Fish and Fisheries of the Inlé Lake,” Rec. Ind. Mus. 
xiv. 1918, pp. 338-64, 7 pls. 
+ Regan, “ The Osteology and Classification of the Teleostean Fishes 
of the Order Apodes,” Ann, & Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) x. 1912, pp. 877-887. 
