The additional species found in these collections and 
the specific localities for these specimens offer 
considerably more geographic information than was available 
from previous literature. Although the list is still 
incomplete, it indicates that Burma has a very rich snake 
fauna. There appear to be at least 150 species of snakes 
(including more than 40 venomous kinds) to be found in this 
country. 
It should be appreciated, however, that most of the 
present records are based’ on specimens’ that were! collected 
more than 50 years ago. Many of these were collected more 
than 100 years ago. 
Acknowledgments. -- We wish to thank our associates in 
Burma who have encouraged us in this work. Prof. Aung Than 
Batu, Director-General of the Medical Research Department, 
Dr. Thein Maung Myint, Deputy Director of Research, and U 
Hla Pe, Head of the Biochemistry Division, have been 
particularly helpful and we thank them and their associates 
for their advice and cooperation. We also thank Prof. U Sein 
Lwin, Head of the Department of Zoology, Rangoon University, 
and his associates, U Zaw Win, Head of the Biological 
Division and U Khin Aung Cho of the Venom Laboratory of the 
Burma Pharmaceutical Industries. We appreciate the time and 
effort that all of these people have expended in our behalf. 
The members of the American Embassy and U.S. Information 
Service in Rangoon have made every effort to make our 
project sucessful. We wish to thank especially John A. 
Fredenburg, Michael Betcher, and U Kyaw Nyein, of USIS. We 
also gratefully remember the efforts of Mr. Fredenburg's 
predecessor, Jerry Kyle, who guided us in the early days of 
our studies. 
We have been equally fortunate in India, where J. C. 
Daniel, Curator of the Bombay Natural History Society, 
T.S.N. Murthy, Zoological Survey of India at Madras, D. P. 
Sanyal, Zoological Society of India in Calcutta, and their 
associates have welcomed our work at their institutions. 
Dr. B. K. Tikader, Director of the Zoological Survey, and 
more” recently Dr. B.2Ss) Lamba), Woint Directors: in iCharge, 
have kindly made the facilities of the Zoological Survey 
available to us. We give all of them our grateful thanks. 
We are especially grateful to Romulus Whitaker of the 
Madras Crocodile Bank and Humayun Abdulali of the Bombay 
Natural History Society for introducing us to something of 
the natural history of southern Asia. Again, the USIS has 
been of great aid, through the kind efforts of Carlos E. 
Aranaga, Vice Counsul in Calcutta. 
