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We study the scaling between bulge magnitude and central black hole (BH) massin galaxies with virial BH masses < 10^6 solar mass. Based on careful imagedecomposition of a snapshot Hubble Space Telescope I-band survey, we found thatthese BHs are found predominantly in galaxies with pseudobulges. Here we showthat the \mbulge\ relation for the pseudobulges at low mass is significantlydifferent from classical bulges with BH masses >10^7 solar mass. Specfically,bulges span a much wider range of bulge luminosity, and on average theluminosity is larger, at fixed black hole mass. The trend holds both for theactive galaxies from Bentz et al. and the inactive sample of Gultekin et al.and cannot be explained by differences in stellar populations, as it persistswhen we use dynamical bulge masses. Put another way, the ratio between bulgeand BH mass is much larger than $\sim 1000$ for our sample. This is consistentwith recent suggestions that black hole mass does not scale with thepseudobulge luminosity. The low-mass scaling relations appear to flatten,consistent with predictions from Volonteri & Natarajan for massive seed BHs.

Black Hole Mass and Bulge Luminosity for Low-mass Black Holes