hartikyha

Updated: August 4, 2026

But the most striking to the eye of a stranger are those fishes whose brilliancy of colouring has won for them the wonder even of the listless Singhalese. Scarpæna miles, Bennett; named, by the Singhalese, "Maharata-gini," the Great Red Fire, a very brilliant red species spotted with black. A very small fish about two inches long, called Kaha hartikyha by the natives.

Sir James Emerson Tennent - Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon