XXI 



MALACOPTERYGII 



559 



glossohyal, and pharyngeal bones. Mesocoracoid arch slender, 

 strongly curved, and meeting its fellow on the median line ; 

 coracoids forming a ventral keel. Vertebrae few (16 + 14). 



FIG. 337. Pantodon buchholzi, natural size. 



Observed by M. de Brazza to be a freshwater Flying-Fish. 

 Fam. 12. Ctenothrissidae. A curious type characterised 

 by small praemaxillaries, large maxillaries, with feeble dentition, 



FIG. 338. Ctenothrissa vexillifer (restored by A. S. Woodward). 



