  A search for lepton flavor violating decays of the $\tau$ lepton to a lighter
mass lepton and a pseudoscalar meson has been performed using 339 fb$^{-1}$ of
$e^+e^-$ annihilation data collected at a center-of-mass energy near 10.58 GeV
by the BaBar detector at the SLAC PEP-II storage ring. No evidence of signal
has been found, and upper limits on the branching fractions are set at
$10^{-7}$ level.
