Endotricha melanobasis Hampson, 1916: 358

(Figs 2, 18)

Type locality: [India,] Khasis [Khasi Hills], Assam [now in Meghalaya]

Material examined. India, Sikkim: Golitar, 1 ♁, 30.iv.2014 (8765/H10) , Mangan, 3 ♁, 25.iv.2014 (8766/H10);

Uttarakhand: Chirbatiya, 4 ♁, 03.vi.2014 (8767/H10), R. Ranjan leg. (NZCZSI) .

Diagnosis: Externally, E. melanobasis (Fig. 2) is closely similar to E. fuscobasalis (Fig. 1) but is distinct by the shorter wingspan, most of the rust brown scales on the wing of E. fuscobasalis are replaced with fuscous scales, the elongated subcostal patch of hindwing is brownish, which is blackish in E. fuscobasalis . In male genitalia, E. melanobasis (Fig. 18) is distinct from E. fuscobasalis (Fig. 17) by the presence of a small, robust, spined, subbasal process on the ventral wall of the dorsal portion of the valva; juxta arrow like (inverted triangle with a central long process) (in E. fuscobasalis juxta is deeply pot-shaped with two latero-apical patches of spines), and the saccular process shorter.

Distribution: India (Khasis [Meghalaya] (Hampson 1916), Indian subcontinent (North) (Whalley 1963), Sikkim, Uttarakhand (present study)), Nepal (Yamanaka 1998), Borneo (Sutton et al. 2015).