Bees have jointed feet, and are, therefore, separated fromwornus, &c., but she still keeps company with spiders. _Arthropoda_ are divided into classes. The honey-bee belongs to the class _Inseeta_. Here she leaves the company of spiders and crabs, and is joined with butterflies, ants, beetles, &c. The honey-bee is not much like a beetle, but more so than it is like a spider. Compare the body of a spider with that of a bee, you cannot but notice that the spider's body is made up of _two parts_ only, head and body, and her _eight legs_ are attached to the latter. The bulk of a bee's body is composed of _three parts_--head, thorax, and abdomen. Bees have but _six legs_, and these are attached to the thorax. Again, spiders lay eggs, and so do bees, but the young hatched from spiders' eggs differ greatly from those hatched from bees' eggs. From the spiders' eggs hatch out young spiders as perfect in form as their parents. The young hatched from bees' or butterflies' eggs are as dissimilar as an earthworm is from a butterfly, and in few respects like the bee or butterfly that laid the egg. From the butterfly's egg caterpillars are hatched. At first these young caterpillars are very small ; they grow rapidly, and when full grown, they enter another stage of development--a chrysalis or pupa. This third stage is so unlike the caterpillar it developed from, were we not acquainted with the fact, it could not be conceived that it is in any way connected with the parent that laid the egg. In course of time, from this strange-looking chrysalis, a perfected bee or butterfly emerges. Spiders belong to the sub-kingdom _Annulosa_, and to the division _Arthropoda_, but not to the class _Inseeta_, because they do not go through those stages in developing to the perfect form or image, as bees, butterflies, &c., do. Spiders change from egg to image only. Here the honey-bee must part from the company of butterflies, beetles, &c. These latter are insects as much as bees are, but there is a great difference between them, chiefly in their wings. Butterflies belong to the order of insects termed _Leipido\(\mu\)tera_, _i.e.,_ insects having wings covered with feathery scales, and beetles to the order _Coleoptera_, their true wings being protected under horny cases. Bees to the order _Hyminoptera_ because their membrane wings are thin, fibrous, and interwoven like network. This order (_Hyminoptera_) contains the largest number of families in the insect world. Some of them are very remarkable for their social habits and wonderful instinctive traits of character. The order _Hyminoptera_ is narrowed down into families--_Apidae_. In it are included ants, hornets, wasps, ichneumons, bees, &c. All these are very bee-like in their general form. We have not as yet reached the particular position in the animal kingdom allotted to true bees. The family _Apidae_ is divided into genera. In one of the divisions termed _Apis_ honey-bees are placed ; accompanying them are mason-bees, carpenter-bees, &c. These latter are short-tongued members of the genus, and therefore are not honey-gatherers. Nevertheless, the habits of the whole of them are extremely interesting. Of long and short tongued bees there are about 2000 varieties. The genus _Apis_ is split into species, and the honey-bee belongs to the species _Mellifica_, and here is the exact position assigned to our friend, the harbinger of civilized man--one of the very few insects that have been domesticated for his use, and the only one that he has brought under his subjugation as an auxiliary in supplying him with that highly essential article of diet, honey.