diff --git a/pandas/core/index.py b/pandas/core/index.py
index b7792309f66ff..12d2574d5efb6 100644
--- a/pandas/core/index.py
+++ b/pandas/core/index.py
@@ -133,11 +133,15 @@ def _shallow_copy(self):
         return self.view()
 
     def __repr__(self):
+        if len(self) > 6 and len(self) > np.get_printoptions()['threshold']:
+            data = self[:3].tolist() + ["..."] + self[-3:].tolist()
+        else:
+            data = self
         if py3compat.PY3:
-            prepr = com.pprint_thing(self)
+            prepr = com.pprint_thing(data)
         else:
-            prepr = com.pprint_thing_encoded(self)
-        return 'Index(%s, dtype=%s)' % (prepr, self.dtype)
+            prepr = com.pprint_thing_encoded(data)
+        return '%s(%s, dtype=%s)' % (type(self).__name__, prepr, self.dtype)
 
     def astype(self, dtype):
         return Index(self.values.astype(dtype), name=self.name,
diff --git a/pandas/tests/test_index.py b/pandas/tests/test_index.py
index b94840d0dfd85..4a2a64ead366a 100644
--- a/pandas/tests/test_index.py
+++ b/pandas/tests/test_index.py
@@ -851,6 +851,11 @@ def test_print_unicode_columns(self):
         df=pd.DataFrame({u"\u05d0":[1,2,3],"\u05d1":[4,5,6],"c":[7,8,9]})
         print(df.columns) # should not raise UnicodeDecodeError
 
+    def test_repr_summary(self):
+        r = repr(pd.Index(np.arange(10000)))
+        self.assertTrue(len(r) < 100)
+        self.assertTrue( "..." in r)
+
 class TestMultiIndex(unittest.TestCase):
 
     def setUp(self):