“[The caterpillars] had constructed through the soil a gallery, internally coated with a slight brownish-coloured silken tissue, and of just sufficient width to permit the passage of their bodies.” Description from AW Scott, ‘Australian Lepidoptera and their Transformations’, Volume 1, Plate 4 (1864).
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