On the hindwing the blue or green occupies a medial area from the base to the disc, and leaves a broad brown edging to the costa, termen and dorsum.

The underside of the hindwing has the brown basal area irrorated (sprinkled) inwardly with metallic blue scales and sharply demarcated from the greyish-white terminal area which occupies about half the wing; discocellular spot large and prominently white, as is an angulated transverse discal series of large spots; these latter spots in many specimens somewhat obscure on the greyish-white ground colour of the terminal half of the wing.

Underside as in the male; the discal spots generally more prominent and followed in some specimens by two or three posterior, large, diffuse brown markings.

Variety ellisi Marshall, differs from typical jaloka as follows: Upperside of the male has the suffusion of metallic bluish-green scales restricted to the immediate base of the forewing, extended slightly more outwards on the hindwing, but never so far towards the termen as in jaloka in both sexes the discal series of spots on both forewings and hindwings very large and clearly defined, the discocellular spot prominently white, very rarely centred with dark brown.

Underside: greyish white, discs of wings brown, bases irrorated somewhat densely with metallic green scales, paler than in the typical race.

Hindwing, according to de Niceville has, in addition to the discocellular and discal markings, "a marginal double series of coalescing white lunules.