diff --git a/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/xpath/selector.py b/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/xpath/selector.py
index bdc30cf89..f49e5c84c 100644
--- a/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/xpath/selector.py
+++ b/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/xpath/selector.py
@@ -86,6 +86,9 @@ class XPathSelector(object):
 class XPathSelectorList(list):
     """List of XPathSelector objects"""
 
+    def __getslice__(self, i, j):
+        return XPathSelectorList(list.__getslice__(self, i, j))
+
     def x(self, xpath):
         """Perform the given XPath query on each XPathSelector of the list and
         return a new (flattened) XPathSelectorList of the results"""