





3. 
GOMPHOSUS FUSCUS. 
Order, ‘THORACIC. 
(Shaw’s Zool., Vol. IV., p. 479.) 
Native Name, Gunuocbie . Koppra Girawan— 
Porpus PARROT. 
G. ruscus. Body brown. Gills, Dorsal and anal fins brownish red. 
Branchiostegous rays 6. Dorsal 22, eight spinous. Pectoral 16. Ventral 6. 
Anal 14, two spinous. Caudal 14. 
Tuts species of Gomphosus is very rarely to be met with on the 
southern coast of Ceylon. The Cingalese will eat the Koppra 
Girawah; but it has nothing to recommend it, either to the fisherman 
for the purposes of sale, or to the natives as an article of food. 
It inhabits rocky situations. 
Figure—Nearly the natural size of the Specimen. 
