Can anyone identify these caterpillars?

[David Nicholls <>]

I'd be very interested to know what they are, too.  I first saw them 
digging holes on a dirt path to the NE corner of the ANU in about 1966, 
and have always wondered about them.
DN

Nick Payne wrote:
> This afternoon, while walking across the oval between Blaxland Crescent 
> and the Griffith shops, about every five or ten metres I came across one 
> of these caterpillars, each of them busy digging itself a hole. Every 20 
> seconds or so the caterpillar would back out of the hole, deposit a 
> small ball of dirt, and head down the hole again to grub out some more. 
> Average body length around 3.5-4cm.

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