364 LIEUT.-COL. W. H. SYKES ON THE 
RouTEE, nov. genus. 
Carps, with a lozenge-shaped body, rather long dorsal and anal fins, the former seated on the angle of 
the back, with the first complete ray serrated posteriorly ; scales minute. 
Rouree Oaireit. 
Tab. LXIII. Fig. 2. 
A Rohtee, with 12 rays in the dorsal, 9 in the ventral, and 17 in the anal fins; the body very compressed, 
and very high, with the back sloping to each end from the centre. 
An erect, compressed, deep fish: lance-headed : reddish-purplish silvery on the back, 
softening into silvery below: back angular : dorsal fin situated on the angle, of 10 rays, 
besides 2 rays before the longest ray ; first long ray a strong bone, serrated posteriorly ; 
pectoral fins of 15 rays ; ventral fins of 9 rays, situated on a perpendicular let fall from 
the first dorsal ray ; anal fin of 15 rays, besides 2 before the longest ray: tail forked ; 
lobes sharp, but not deep, of 19 rays, besides 8 minute rays on the outside of the 
longest rays. Eyes very large: head short ; mouth descending obliquely. Lateral line 
arched near the shoulders, thence straight to the tail. Scales not large; uniform over 
the body. Length, 43 inches; height, 1} inch. Fish bony. Found abundantly in the 
Beema river, near Pairgaon. 
The Rohtee has the appearance of Clupanodon Chanpole of Dr. Hamilton ; also of 
Cyprinus devario in the outline of the body ; and were it proper to consider it a Cyprinus, 
which its armed back-fin renders impossible, it would be placed in Dr. Hamilton’s 
eighth sub-genus ‘ Cabdio.’ I have named this fish after my friend Mr. Ogilby, whose 
contributions to natural history are so well known. 
Rountree Vicorsil. 
Tab. LXIII. Fig. 3. 
A Rohtee, with armed dorsal fin of 11 rays, ventral of 10, and anal of 28 rays; compressed body; high in 
the middle, and sloping to each end. 
A compressed, lance-head-form silvery fish, with the snout turned up: upper line of 
the head straight, lower curved upwards from below: greyish light green on the back, 
white on the abdomen: dorsal fin of 11 rays, including the first ray, which is bony and 
double, and the second ray long-toothed posteriorly ; pectoral fins, including minute 
rays, 16 ; ventral fins of 10 rays, and anal fin of 28 rays, including 2 minute rays before 
the first long ray: tail deeply forked, of 27 rays, including 4 on the outer side of each 
longest ray: ventral fins in advance of a perpendicular dropped from the dorsal fin : line 
of the dorsal and anal fins concave : lobes of the tail long and very sharp: dorsal fin 
situated on the top of a keeled process from the back. Scales very minute, roundish, 
quite transparent, and becoming invisible on the abdomen: back angular: eyes very 
