 Perhaps a natural and priestly modesty moved him to decline co-authorship, or perhaps an overwhelming urge to give of himself in memory of his recently deceased friend, whom he was not long to survive.As it is, although in the text the editor has carefully noted the authorship of the individual descriptions, the work is normally cited as being solely by Buckler, and Hellins’ fame somewhat declined over the years.It is notable however that he was, with Buckler, the joint dedicatee of a popular book on Lepidoptera by Stainton, and that his descriptions of caterpillars continued to be attributed to him up to the middle of the twentieth century.