diff --git a/rxjava-core/src/main/java/rx/operators/OperationMap.java b/rxjava-core/src/main/java/rx/operators/OperationMap.java
index 9eb2520420..940147b0b8 100644
--- a/rxjava-core/src/main/java/rx/operators/OperationMap.java
+++ b/rxjava-core/src/main/java/rx/operators/OperationMap.java
@@ -15,12 +15,16 @@
  */
 package rx.operators;
 
-import static org.junit.Assert.*;
-import static org.mockito.Matchers.*;
-import static org.mockito.Mockito.*;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
+import static org.mockito.Matchers.any;
+import static org.mockito.Mockito.inOrder;
+import static org.mockito.Mockito.never;
+import static org.mockito.Mockito.times;
+import static org.mockito.Mockito.verify;
 
 import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.concurrent.CountDownLatch;
 import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicInteger;
 
 import org.junit.Before;
@@ -33,6 +37,7 @@
 import rx.Observable.OnSubscribeFunc;
 import rx.Observer;
 import rx.Subscription;
+import rx.concurrency.Schedulers;
 import rx.util.functions.Func1;
 import rx.util.functions.Func2;
 
@@ -59,17 +64,12 @@ public final class OperationMap {
      * @return a sequence that is the result of applying the transformation function to each item in the input sequence.
      */
     public static <T, R> OnSubscribeFunc<R> map(final Observable<? extends T> sequence, final Func1<? super T, ? extends R> func) {
-        return new OnSubscribeFunc<R>() {
-            @Override
-            public Subscription onSubscribe(Observer<? super R> observer) {
-                return new MapObservable<T, R>(sequence, new Func2<T, Integer, R>() {
+        return mapWithIndex(sequence, new Func2<T, Integer, R>() {
                     @Override
                     public R call(T value, @SuppressWarnings("unused") Integer unused) {
                         return func.call(value);
                     }
-                }).onSubscribe(observer);
-            }
-        };
+                });
     }
 
     /**
@@ -136,7 +136,8 @@ public MapObservable(Observable<? extends T> sequence, Func2<? super T, Integer,
 
         @Override
         public Subscription onSubscribe(final Observer<? super R> observer) {
-            return sequence.subscribe(new Observer<T>() {
+            final SafeObservableSubscription subscription = new SafeObservableSubscription();
+            return subscription.wrap(sequence.subscribe(new SafeObserver<T>(subscription, new Observer<T>() {
                 @Override
                 public void onNext(T value) {
                     observer.onNext(func.call(value, index));
@@ -152,7 +153,7 @@ public void onError(Throwable ex) {
                 public void onCompleted() {
                     observer.onCompleted();
                 }
-            });
+            })));
         }
     }
 
@@ -366,6 +367,41 @@ public String call(String s) {
             assertEquals(1, c2.get());
         }
 
+        @Test(expected = IllegalArgumentException.class)
+        public void testMapWithIssue417() {
+            Observable.from(1).observeOn(Schedulers.threadPoolForComputation())
+            .map(new Func1<Integer, Integer>() {
+                public Integer call(Integer arg0) {
+                    throw new IllegalArgumentException("any error");
+                }
+            }).toBlockingObservable().single();
+        }
+
+        @Test
+        public void testMapWithErrorInFuncAndThreadPoolScheduler() throws InterruptedException {
+            // The error will throw in one of threads in the thread pool.
+            // If map does not handle it, the error will disappear.
+            // so map needs to handle the error by itself.
+            final CountDownLatch latch = new CountDownLatch(1);
+            Observable<String> m = Observable.from("one")
+                    .observeOn(Schedulers.threadPoolForComputation())
+                    .map(new Func1<String, String>() {
+                        public String call(String arg0) {
+                            try {
+                                throw new IllegalArgumentException("any error");
+                            } finally {
+                                latch.countDown();
+                            }
+                        }
+                    });
+
+            m.subscribe(stringObserver);
+            latch.await();
+            InOrder inorder = inOrder(stringObserver);
+            inorder.verify(stringObserver, times(1)).onError(any(IllegalArgumentException.class));
+            inorder.verifyNoMoreInteractions();
+        }
+
         private static Map<String, String> getMap(String prefix) {
             Map<String, String> m = new HashMap<String, String>();
             m.put("firstName", prefix + "First");