diff --git a/src/IO/Spherical_IO.F90 b/src/IO/Spherical_IO.F90
index 800860a6..5e71e128 100755
--- a/src/IO/Spherical_IO.F90
+++ b/src/IO/Spherical_IO.F90
@@ -1721,7 +1721,7 @@ Subroutine Parse_Inds(indices_inout, indmax, indcount)
                 jmin =  indices_inout(i)+1
                 
                 ! Only expand the subrange if the values of jmin and jmax
-                ! are consistent.
+                ! are consistent and if they fall within the grid bounds.
                 If ((jmin .ge. 1) .and. (jmax .ge. jmin)) Then
                     Do j = jmin,jmax
                         If (j .le. indmax) Then