. Bulletin of the Natural History Museum Zoology. . Fig. 2 Lateral view of anterior of skull, mandible and dentition of Hylomys megalotis BMNH Scale = 1 mm. Comparison with other taxa The new species is readily distinguished in external appearance from all other species of Hylomys. It is similar in body size but with a considerably longer tail and larger ears (see Table 3). Tail 65-74 % of head and body length in H. megalotis, 51-63 % in H. sinensis, 27-31 % in H. hainanensis, and very short (us and H. suillus. The lack of flattened spinous hairs in the pelage distinguishes H. megalot
. Bulletin of the Natural History Museum Zoology. . Fig. 2 Lateral view of anterior of skull, mandible and dentition of Hylomys megalotis BMNH Scale = 1 mm. Comparison with other taxa The new species is readily distinguished in external appearance from all other species of Hylomys. It is similar in body size but with a considerably longer tail and larger ears (see Table 3). Tail 65-74 % of head and body length in H. megalotis, 51-63 % in H. sinensis, 27-31 % in H. hainanensis, and very short (us and H. suillus. The lack of flattened spinous hairs in the pelage distinguishes H. megalotis from H. suillus and H. sinensis. The rhinarium is more extensive posteriorly than in H. sinensis but more elongate and narrower than in H. suillus. The claws and first and fifth digits of the forefeet of//, sinensis, H. suillus and H. pan>us are not lengthened as in H. megalotis and the cheiridia are smaller than in H. megalotis. The sole and tarsal region of the hindfoot are naked in H. megalotis, differing from the haired soles found in H. sinensis and H. suillus. The paired pre-anal glands are midway between the cloaca and the anus in H. sinensis and close to the anus in H. suillus, so differing from that of H. megalotis, in which the single opening is positioned immediately posterior to the cloaca. The skull of H. megalotis is more elongate in appearance than any of the other species of Hylomys; it is longer, with a longer, narrower rostrum, longer upper toothrow and the braincase is shallower relative to its breadth (see (see Fig. 1 and Table 3). The posterodorsal region of the premaxilla is widely separated from the anterodorsal region of the frontal by the maxilla in H. megalotis, narrowly separated in H. hainanensis but in contact or nearly in contact in H. sinensis, H. suillus and H. parvus (see Table 4). As in H. sinensis, but unlike other species of Hylomys, the posteriormost portion of the nasals in the new species extend to the level of the antorbital rim. Hy
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