Field experiments were conducted during kharif 2004 and 2005 at Genetics and Plant Breeding Unit, College of Agriculture, Bheemarayanagudi to know the varietal performance, variability and association of traits in chilli. Eleven elite advanced lines obtained from Chilli Research Station, Devihosur were evaluated along with KDC 1,  Byadgi Dabbi and Byadgi Kaddi as checks. Among the 11 advanced lines evaluated, the mean (2004 and 2005) dry chilli yield per hectare was highest in 9626-6-1(12.75 q/ha) followed by HCS G1 (12.64 q/ha). During 2004, HCS G1 recorded significantly highest yield (18.52 q/ha) due to highest number of fruits per plant (144.2), fruit width (1.36 cm) and highest yield per plant (100.2 g). Better performance of 9626-6-1 was due to fruit weight and fruit width. The differences between phenotypic and genotypic coefficient of variation were low for days to 50% flowering, plant height, fruit diameter and number of  fruits per plant. High genetic advance over mean coupled with higher heritability was observed for number of fruits per plant. The correlation studies indicated that the yield was positively associated with most of the traits but its magnitude was high with number of fruits per plant (0.8026) and fruit diameter (0.6401).