108 Mr. C. Tate Regan 07i Cliaudhuria. 



j'oda 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 -sviugs, those of our insects being strongly 

 smoky, exce|)t at base. The structure of the face and front 

 also differ ; thus there is no median tubercle on the clypeus. 

 There is black liair on the apical part of scutellura and on 

 postscutellum, but the hair of these parts is all white in 

 our species. 



Meyachile aureobasis, sp. n. 



c? . — Length about 10 mm. 



Black, the wings fuligi: ous except the base, which is 

 strongly orange. Very close in all respects to M. wnbri- 

 pennJs, Smith, from Nepal, but diftering 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 antennse 

 without a distinct band of fulvous hair. The end of the 

 abdomen is faintlv emarginate. 



Madras, Sept. 3, 1907 (T. S. A.). 



Perhaps only a local race of M. umbripenniSj but I have 

 seen no intermediates. 



Megachilc antJiracina, Smith. 

 cJ . Coimbatore, Nov. 1913. 



XY. — ]!\ote on Cliaudhuria, a Teleostean Fish of the Order 

 OiAsthomi. By C. Tate Regan, M.A., F.K.S. 



(Publislied by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.) 



In a recent memoir on the fishes of the Inl^ 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 — Cliaudhuriidai — of 

 the Older Apodes. On reading Dr. Annandale's description 

 and studying his figures I came to the conclusion that tliis 

 little fish was not a member of tiie Apodes (c/. Regan f), but 



* Annandale, "Fish and Fisheries of the Inle Lake," Rec. Ind. Mus. 

 xiv. 1918, pp. 33-64, 7 pis, 



t Regan, " The Osteology and Classification of the Teleostean Fishes 

 of the Order Apodes," Ann." & Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) x. 1912, pp. 377-387. 



