 By 1873 they had covered 850 species, and Buckler had amassed over 5000 drawings and paintings.After Buckler died, H. T. Stainton took over the editorship of the projected book, which commenced publication in 1886 as "The Larvae of the British Butterflies and Moths", eventually completed in 1901 in nine volumes, under the editorship of first Stainton and then George Taylor Porritt.This included descriptions by Hellins, constituting up to a third of the work, and by modern standards he would have been featured as a co-author (particularly in the earlier volumes).